While occupying the expected place of a plant's roots, the image clearly looks more like a pair of wings that are somewhat overlapped. In heraldry conjoined wings are called a "vol".
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In Siebmacher, with 2500+ insignia, I found only two examples of conjoined wings, with a star between. For separated pairs of wings, there were more than a dozen examples.
Conjoined wings are rare, but they are present in other, earlier sources. In some ways heraldic wings and heraldic antlers are treated similarly.
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And getting back to the VMs, the feathers do look rather spikey. To see how wings and feathers were drawn in a particular source, it's better to look at the crests than at the charges. What's unusual then is not the "feathers" that go up in the VMs illustration, but the "feathers" that go down. But then, not all "roots" can go up.
Further interpretation has been proposed for the VMs "wings". Perhaps there should be two black eagle-heads where there are none? Not to mention two feet and a tail.
Is the use of red paint on the wings indicative of Saint Michael? Red is used in several illustrations, but there are also depictions where the wings are not painted red.
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The wings are gold and blue. Maybe Delft had this 'thing' with blue?
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In Siebmacher, with 2500+ insignia, I found only two examples of conjoined wings, with a star between. For separated pairs of wings, there were more than a dozen examples.
Conjoined wings are rare, but they are present in other, earlier sources. In some ways heraldic wings and heraldic antlers are treated similarly.
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And getting back to the VMs, the feathers do look rather spikey. To see how wings and feathers were drawn in a particular source, it's better to look at the crests than at the charges. What's unusual then is not the "feathers" that go up in the VMs illustration, but the "feathers" that go down. But then, not all "roots" can go up.
Further interpretation has been proposed for the VMs "wings". Perhaps there should be two black eagle-heads where there are none? Not to mention two feet and a tail.
Is the use of red paint on the wings indicative of Saint Michael? Red is used in several illustrations, but there are also depictions where the wings are not painted red.
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The wings are gold and blue. Maybe Delft had this 'thing' with blue?
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