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Escutcheon

1600-1699 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Escutcheon of painted pine, carved with a scrolled cartouche, on which is a shield supported by two satyrs, bearing the following arms:
or, three crescents gules (Edmonstone), and or, a fess sable between three cinquefoils pierced of the same, party per pale. The whole is surmounted by a festoon of drapery and below is a label inscribed: RIDE SI SAPIS.

Scottish. 17th century.

Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Carved and painted softwood
Brief description
Escutcheon, Scottish?, 1600-1699, pine
Physical description
Escutcheon of painted pine, carved with a scrolled cartouche, on which is a shield supported by two satyrs, bearing the following arms:
or, three crescents gules (Edmonstone), and or, a fess sable between three cinquefoils pierced of the same, party per pale. The whole is surmounted by a festoon of drapery and below is a label inscribed: RIDE SI SAPIS.

Scottish. 17th century.
Dimensions
  • Height: 71.5cm
  • Width: 46cm
  • Depth: 9cm
Measured Jan 2010
Marks and inscriptions
RIDE SI SAPIS (On a carved wood label above the crest)
Translation
Laugh if you are wise
Bibliographic reference
From: H. Clifford Smith, Catalogue of English Furniture & Woodwork (London 1930), 662
Collection
Accession number
293-1897

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Record createdJuly 26, 2007
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