Heraldry as art: An account of its development and practice, chiefly in England

by G. W. Eve

Fig. 22.—
Tournament Shield.
Fifteenth Century.

Fig. 23.—
Dürer’s Arms.
Early Sixteenth Century.

Fig. 24.—
French Wood-carving.
Fifteenth Century.

Foliated decoration applied to the duplicated tournament form is well exemplified in the shield from the plate of the arms of Herr Kress, who was the friend of Dürer, though the plate is not Dürer’s work (Fig. 26).

Fig. 25.—Fifteenth Century.