Overall: 70cm (27.5in) x 88cm (34.6in)
Polychromed carved wood. Royal warrant holder’s armorial appointment sign for a supplier to Mary of Teck (1867-1953), Queen Consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress Consort of India, from 6 May 1910 until 29 January 1936 as the wife of King-Emperor George V.
Queen Mary’s armorial comprising the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom impaled with her family arms – these comprising, the arms of her grandfather, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, in the 1st and 4th quarters, and the arms of her father, Prince Francis, Duke of Teck, in the 2nd and 3rd quarters. The shield is surmounted by the imperial crown, and supported by the crowned lion of England and ‘a stag Proper’ as in the arms of Württemberg.