Details
A banqueting cloth of fine white linen damask, the centre woven with two large shields filled with an eagle and topped by a crown with orb and shouldered by a figure holding an orb and sceptre and by a sinister hand, the corners with large crowned Ns, the field scattered with bees and eagles, some crowned--288 x 146in. (732 x 372cm.); and five matching white linen damask napkins--42 x 35in. (106 x 88cm.), 1852-1870 (6)
Literature
See 'Le Damas de Lin Histori', Marguerite Prinet, page 215, for an identical napkin from the Victoria and Albert Museum. Mme Prinet also notes that there is a matching service in the Chteau de Compigne.