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Description: | 1 of 2 napkins brought over from France by John Bergne, the other napkin is in the Victoria and Albert Museum and is recorded as follows 'a particularly interesting napkin of linen damask, French work of the middle of the 18th Century; was given by Lady Bergne; it is woven with subjects and scenes connected with the war of the Austrian succession; in the centre is a circular shield with 3 fleur de lys/France/encircled with the collars of the Orders of the Holy Ghost and St Michael and ensigned by the Royal Crown flanked by crowned shields, quarterly 1st and 4th 3 fleur-de-lys and 2nd and 3rd a dolphin, for the Dauphin of France; there is an equestrian figure of Louis XV on a ground powdered with fleur-de-lys, and representations of the City of Tournay and the Battle of Fonteney; in the borders are shown Flemish towns with Meenen, Ypres, Tournay with trophies of arms' | Subjects: | Textiles | Temporal: | 1793 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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