Coat Of Arms

Description of the City Arms:

"Argent, a cross gules, fretty or, between in the first quarter a representation of the Portland Vase; in the second a camel kneeling proper, charged on the body with an escutcheon argent, thereon a cross gules; in the third an eagle displayed sable; and in the fourth a scythe also proper, on a chief of the second a boar's head erased between two Stafford Knots of the third.
Crest - on a wreath of the colours, a Potter of ancient Egypt at his wheel argent."

Motto - "Vis unita fortior"
Translation - "United Strength is Stronger"

- The Staffordshire Knot in the top panel is taken from the Tunstall Arms.
- The Boar's head, in the top panel, was taken from the Stoke-upon-Trent (Stoke Town) Arms (The Arms of the Copeland Family).
- The Portland Vase (top left quadrant) was taken from the Burslem Arms
- The Fretty Cross appears on the Arms of the town of Fenton.
- The Hanley Arms provided the Dromedary Camel (top right quadrant) (Crest of the Ridgway Family).
- The Eagle (bottom left quadrant) was taken from the Longton Arms (Crest of James Glover).
- The Sythe (bottom right quadrant) is taken from both the Tunstall and Burslem Arms.
- The Egyptian Potter at his wheel represents the pottery industry

Reproduced by kind permission of www.thepotteries.org