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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;say_it_slowly, post: 467480, member: 50&quot;]I guess you&#039;d have to ask the owners<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />. </p><p><br /></p><p>What my pedestrian understanding is....porcelains with coats of arms were expensive in their time and were a way to show one&#039;s wealth and standing. Services of hundreds of pieces were often used, at least for special occasions, including tureens. </p><p><br /></p><p>For example, the animal head tureens had nose holes so steam could escape and make a spectacle at the table. Or so I&#039;ve read. </p><p><br /></p><p>Foodways and ceramic uses are much researched and knowing that I would be happy to be corrected and educated. (I once hauled my little collection of 18th C punchbowls into a lab so volumes could be measured after the museum associated with the lab wouldn&#039;t allow liquid to be put in their bowls. (I get it<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" />) )</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe that coats-of-arms were actually coats worn over armor with identifying symbols for the battlefield. Armorials seems to pertain to them more broadly in definition. But then I don&#039;t count on what I think I know<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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