International Women's Day 2024
The Lyon Office's contribution to this year's International Women's Day is two fine paintings from the Register:
Quarterly: first and fourth Argent a man's heart Gules crowned with an antique crown Or, on a chief azure three mullets of the First (for Douglas); second and third Azure a bend betwixt six cross-crosslets fitchée Or (for Mar); in the fess point a crescent chequy all within a bordure compony invected Gules and Argent charged alternately with crescents and mullets counterchanged.
And
Arms of Stella Grant-Duff-Ainslie or Ruthven-Stuart 1928:
Quarterly first and fourth Gules a lotus flower slipped between three antique crowns Or (for Grant); second, Or a cross flory Sable, on a chief Vert and Aesculapian rod between two lotus flowers slipped Or (for Ainslie); third, Vert on a fess dancetté Ermine between a buck's head cabossed in chief and two escallops in base, a cross flory between two boars' heads erased Or armed and langued Gules (for Duff); all within a bordure invected Azure.
