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A DAMASK LINEN NAPKIN DEPICTING THE CAPTURE OF BELGRADE BY PRINCE EUGEN OF SAVOYE
Lot 245

A DAMASK LINEN NAPKIN DEPICTING THE CAPTURE OF BELGRADE BY PRINCE EUGEN OF SAVOYE

COURTRAI, CIRCA 1717

Closed16 December 2009

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EUR 750

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A DAMASK LINEN NAPKIN DEPICTING THE CAPTURE OF BELGRADE BY PRINCE EUGEN OF SAVOYE
COURTRAI, CIRCA 1717
Depicting Prince Eugene of Savoye on horseback below his coat of arms above an inscription VIRIBUS/EUGENY/AQILA/DEVORAT/LUNAM symbolizing the Habsburg eagle devouring the Ottoman moon, and flanked to either side by a kneeling Turk with inscription TURCA/PREGATUR/VITAM
108 cm. high x 90 cm. wide

Specialist note

A virtually identical tablecloth is illustrated in A.G. Pauwels, Damast, Kortrijk, 1986, plate 153, pp. 422-423.