# Coat-of-Arms of Anthony of Burgundy [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [COUSTENS, Pieter]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Oil on panel, 94,2 x 58,7 cm ## Commentary This coat-of-arms belongs to a series of 28 which is fixed above the choir-stalls of St Saviour's Cathedral to commemorate the 13th chapter of the order which was held there in 1478. The entire series was painted by Pieter Coustens, a court painter in Burgundy. The coat-of-arms of Anthony of Burgundy \(1421-1504\), as Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the Great Bastard of Burgundy, knighted during the 9th chapter in The Hague in 1456, is adorned with a helm, a crest and mantling and is enfolded by the golden chain of the order, from which a ram's fleece hangs. The highly decorative calligraphy reads in gilt gothic letters: Antoine b\[âtard\] de Bourg\[og\]ne / Conte de la Roche en Arden\[n\]e\[s\]. The richly decorated letters which run out into flowing curls are borrowed from the fashionable calligraphy which reached a high point in the third quarter of the fifteenth century and was very popular at the sophisticated Burgundian court. Gilt curls of this kind also appear in Hans Memling's work. ## Related artworks - [Coat-of-Arms of Philip of Savoy]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()