Furnace (heraldry)

Furnaces or parts of furnaces (such as a stove pipe ) are rarely depicted in heraldry . If they are used in a coat of arms, it is mostly as a common figure and in very different forms of representation, which correspond to the different designs for different applications of stoves (from simple domed hearths to the large blast furnaces for producing steel of the industrial age).

Representation and Blazon

In the classical heraldry, only forms of representation of ovens that were known up to the Gothic period are accepted; industrial blast furnaces or similar as a common figure represent a coat of arms anachronism and are only taken up as a motif in "modern heraldry" or in the "decay of heraldry" .

When an oven symbolism is used in a coat of arms, it is usually very strongly stylized, so that the shape shown in the coat of arms is not really suitable for baking, heating or melting. Often the furnace is represented together with fire , the fire being tinged in red and the furnace often in silver or gold.