Cauldron

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See also Tool, Eating .

Examples:

Period:

14-41-21_Cauldrons.jpg
Heraldic Cauldrons from OSCAR


Calderas Gringoladas (snake handles):

http://coblaith.net/Heraldry/Regional/Calderas/default.html

caldera1.jpg caldera2.jpg caldera3.jpg
BSB 290, Armas de los Condes, f52r, caldera gringolada BSB 290, Armas de los Condes, p57r, caldera gringolada BSB 290, Armas de los Condes, f97r, caldera gringolada
Livro so Armeiro Mor
Livro do Armeiro Mor, Portugal, 1506-09, Pacheco Chefe, Or on Or caldeiras gringoladas

Modern:

Pictorial Dictionary of SCA Heraldry (3rd edition): Pot, Cauldron

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A fleshpot (period) A cauldron (period) Three-footed pot (period) Spouted pot (period)
pot_kettle-261x300.jpg pot_pipkin-264x300.jpg pot_clay-258x300.jpg
Pipkin (accepted) Clay pot (accepted) Kettle (accepted)

See also

Caldera gringolada

Vector Graphics:

Annotated Pennsic Traceable Art Project

Precedents:

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html
Morsulus Heralds Website - http://www.morsulus.org/ (to search the LoARs and Precedents)

Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

Definition:

August 2015 - defining instance caldera gringolada:

#153Selene Colfox. Badge. (Fieldless) A caldera gringolada barry sable and Or, the serpents Or. This is the defining instance of a caldera gringolada in SCA armory. This charge is a uniquely Iberian charge, and can be seen on f.52r of the 16th century armorial BSB-Hss Cod.icon. 290, Armas de los Condes, Vescondes etc. de Cataluña, de Castilla, de Portugal (found at http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00001370/image_119). It appears to be a later stylized version of an ordinary cauldron with snake heads extending from each end of the handle or from the pot and typically barry or checky tincturing as the main distinguishing features. http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2015/08/15-08lar.html#153

Nov 2013 - types of pots:

From Wreath: Blazoning Fun -- Kitchen Pots and Pans "Turning now to the subject of kitchen wares, a submission this month required us to look more closely at cauldrons and similar pots. In period armorials, the cauldron is the most common cooking pot type of charge. It is typically depicted without legs, although occasionally with three legs, but always with a transverse bail handle (a single arched handle). Another cooking pot found in period armory is the so-called flesh-pot, a similarly shaped pot with three legs and two rounded or angular handles at the rim.

We have received several submissions in the recent past that resemble a cauldron, only without the bail handle. As we have not yet found this depiction of a pot in period armory, we must turn to period artifacts to see if it is attested and thus registerable. A quick perusal of period woodcuts and paintings showing kitchen equipment shows that most cooking pots were cauldrons, with or without feet, either hanging from the bail handle or set directly into the fire.

As for pots without the transverse bail handle, Saint Vitus is commonly depicted with a pot, or in a pot, as a reference to his manner of death. Most typically this is a three-legged pot with handles, or a flesh-pot ([1] ). One period woodcut showed several cauldrons, with three legs, bail handles, and lids, set next to an identically-shaped pot with three legs but no obvious handle ([2]). Band 13 of the manuscripts of the Baden State Library in Karlsruhe (URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:31-8660), on page 175 ([3]) has a figure drawn in the margin of a mid-12th Century fragment of someone retrieving food from a three-legged pot with no visible handles.

As all three forms of cooking pot are attested in period, all are registerable in armory. We will henceforth blazon pots with transverse bail handles, regardless of legs, as cauldrons. Pots with no bail handle, but with obvious handles at the rim, we will blazon as flesh-pots. Pots without handles but with legs will be blazoned three-legged pots. Pots with no handles or legs will be send back for redraw, unless evidence is presented of that form of cooking pot in period. There is no difference between any form of cooking pot.

Registerability:

(Restricted, Reserved, SFPP, OOP)

Conflict:

June 2013 - cauldron vs caldera gringolada:

#156Selene Colfox. Badge. (Fieldless) A caldera gringolada Or... Commenters discussed whether or not this charge conflicts with an ordinary cauldron. Although the charge appears to be treated as distinct from a cauldron in Iberian armory, this was not obviously the case in the 16th century Italian armorial BSB Cod.icon.267, Insignia pontificum Romanorum et cardinalium II. Insignia ab Urbano VI ad Robertum de Nobilibus cardinalem//. In that source, depictions of the arms of Spanish bishops show the caldera gringolada with distinct snake heads (f.370r, http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00001415/image_751), a faint "fringe" of snake heads (f.299r, http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00001415/image_609), and no snake heads (f.329r, http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00001415/image_669). We must therefore treat the snake heads as a blazonable but maintained element. While caldera gringolada are typically barry or checky, we do not define charges in SCA heraldry based on tincture, and we would certainly allow an ordinary cauldron to be barry or checky, or a caldera gringolada to be a single tincture. Therefore, a caldera gringolada is not considered different from a cauldron for purposes of conflict. Due to their shape and tendency to be barry or checky, they may also conflict with round woven baskets. This badge is returned for conflict with the badge of Aurelie de Montpellier, (Fieldless) A cauldron Or. There is a DC for fieldlessness, but nothing for the difference between a cauldron and a caldera gringolada. http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2013/06/13-06lar.html#156

Identifiability:

Collected Precedents:


In the Ordinary

(includes bowl, cooking pot, pot)