Live Auction 5467The Althorp Attic Sale - Including the Spencer Carriages
ELEVEN FINE IRISH LINEN NAPKINS
Lot 129

ELEVEN FINE IRISH LINEN NAPKINS

WILLIAM COULSON & SONS, LISBURN, DATED 1870

Closed8 July 2010

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GBP 1,375

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ELEVEN FINE IRISH LINEN NAPKINS
WILLIAM COULSON & SONS, LISBURN, DATED 1870
Of very finely-woven white damask, with central Garter ribbon and Spencer cypher, woven with garter-linked chains and a border of scrolling blooms and shamrocks
31 x 38 in. (79 x 96.5 cm.) (11)

Commissioned by John Poyntz, 5th Earl Spencer (1835-1910) when serving his first tenure as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1868-1874, combining the Garter and Irish emblems with his family arms.