Coat of arms of New York

State of New York

Use	Civil and state flag
Adopted	April 2, 1901; 123 years ago (1901-04-02)
Variant flag of State of New York
Name	Flag of the Governor of New York

Coat of arms of the State of New York
Great Seal of the State of New York
Details
Armiger	State of New York
Adopted	1778 (Seal and CoA)
Escutcheon	Azure, in a landscape, the sun in fess, rising in splendor or, behind a range of three mountains, the middle one the highest; in base a ship and sloop under sail, passing and about to meet on a river, bordered below by a grassy shore fringed with shrubs, all proper.
Supporters	Liberty and Justice
Motto	Excelsior

The coat of arms of the state of New York was formally adopted in 1778, and appears as a component of the state's flag and seal.

The shield displays a masted ship and a sloop on the Hudson River (symbols of inland and foreign commerce), bordered by a grassy shore and a mountain range in the background with the sun rising behind it. The sun has a face on it. The unheraldic nature of the Hudson River landscape reveals the modern origin of the design.