LINEN
A table napkin of fine white linen damask, the centre woven with the Chteau de Pau surrounded by trees before its restoration, surmounted by a crest with the words SACER CUSTOS PACIS beneath a crown, the field scattered with roses and fleurs de lys and the border with stylised swans, serpents, exotic birds and angels with tails of acanthus leaves holding up the arms of the Foix-Béarn family and woven at each corner with Henri IV's crib, mid 19th century--36 x 28in. (92 x 72cm.)
Details
A table napkin of fine white linen damask, the centre woven with the Chteau de Pau surrounded by trees before its restoration, surmounted by a crest with the words SACER CUSTOS PACIS beneath a crown, the field scattered with roses and fleurs de lys and the border with stylised swans, serpents, exotic birds and angels with tails of acanthus leaves holding up the arms of the Foix-Béarn family and woven at each corner with Henri IV's crib, mid 19th century--36 x 28in. (92 x 72cm.)
Further details
See figure 116, page 169, Le Damas de Lin Historié, Marguerite Prinet, for a similar example