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Balfour-Melville
family·GB·lenient_en·Fox-Davies (Armorial Families)
Blazon
Analyse this blazonQuarterly, 1 and 4, argent on a chevron indented sable, between a rose in chief gules and a saltire in base azure, an otter’s head erased of the field (Balfour of Pilrig, L.O., 1760); 2 and 3 gules, three crescents argent within a bordure of the last, charged with eight roses of the first, a crescent of the second in chief for difference (Melville). Zzvery—Black and silver.
Tinctures
argent (charge)
argent (field)
argent (ordinary)
azur (ordinary)
gueules (charge)
sable (charge)
sable (ordinary)
Charges
bordure (ordinary)
chevron (ordinary)
3× croissant (meuble)
loutre (meuble)
rose (meuble)
sautoir (ordinary)
tête (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
"field": {
"tincture": {
"name": "argent",
"category": "metal"
},
"partition": "écartelé"
},
"charges": [
{
"name": "chevron",
"count": 1,
"category": "ordinary",
"tincture": {
"name": "sable",
"category": "colour"
},
"attitudes": [
"denché"
]
},
{
"name": "rose",
"count": 1,
"category": "meuble",
"tincture": {
"name": "gueules",
"category": "colour"
},
"attitudes": [
"en chef"
]
},
{
"name": "sautoir",
"count": 1,
"category": "ordinary",
"tincture": {
"name": "azur",
"category": "colour"
},
"attitudes": [
"en pointe"
]
},
{
"name": "tête",
"count": 1,
"detail": "loutre",
"category": "meuble",
"tincture": {
"name": "du champ",
"category": "",
"reference": "du champ"
},
"attitudes": [
"arraché"
]
},
{
"name": "croissant",
"count": 3,
"category": "meuble",
"tincture": {
"name": "argent",
"category": "metal"
}
},
{
"name": "bordure",
"count": 1,
"category": "ordinary",
"tincture": {
"name": "du dernier",
"category": "",
"reference": "du dernier"
}
},
{
"name": "rose",
"count": 8,
"category": "meuble",
"tincture": {
"name": "du premier",
"category": "",
"reference": "du premier"
}
},
{
"name": "croissant",
"count": 1,
"category": "meuble",
"tincture": {
"name": "du second",
"category": "",
"reference": "du second"
},
"attitudes": [
"en chef"
]
}
],
"is_compound": true
}Source : Fox-Davies (Armorial Families)