A banqueting cloth of fine white linen damask, depicting the Heroes of the Crimean War, woven at one end with busts of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and Cambridge, at the other with busts of Napoleon III, Eugenie and Prince Napoleon, along the edges with busts of various Allied figures, including Victor Emmanuel II, Florence Nightingale, Pélissier and Omar Pacha, with a shield in front of a collection of artillery at each corner, the central field woven variously with large crests, some of the British Royal Family, another composed of the flags of England, France, Prussia and Austria beneath a crown with the motto DEUS PROTEGIT JUSTITIAM SEP 8 1855 and with smaller medallions commemorating battles of the Crimean War, woven at one end MANUFACTURED BY DEWAR SON & SONS DUNfe & LONDON EXPRESSLY FOR MESSrs HODGE & LOWMAN. REGENT STREET LONDON. and with the ink inscription 6 2 Hart 1866--216 x 108in. (548 x 276cm.)