Details
A napkin of fine white linen damask, the border woven at intervals with crowned eagles and Ns within laurel leaves surmounted by crowns and ribbon, the central field with similar decoration and also with scattered bees, woven in the centre with the arms of Napoleon III--43 x 36in. (110 x 92cm.), circa 1852-1870
Literature
See figure 169, page 215, Le Damas de Lin Historié, Marguerite Prinet for a similar example