A tablecloth of white linen damask, the central field woven with Britannia being crowned by a hovering angel, with a lion and anchor at her feet, watching over a galleon, surrounded by a wreath of fruiting oak branches, the rest of the cloth worked with sprigs of carnations and a border of exotic fruit and flowers, embroidered E T 3 1836 in silk at one corner--136 x 88in. (348 x 224cm.)

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A tablecloth of white linen damask, the central field woven with Britannia being crowned by a hovering angel, with a lion and anchor at her feet, watching over a galleon, surrounded by a wreath of fruiting oak branches, the rest of the cloth worked with sprigs of carnations and a border of exotic fruit and flowers, embroidered E T 3 1836 in silk at one corner--136 x 88in. (348 x 224cm.)

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