Antique French Linen Dinner Napkins, Monogrammed, Set of 6 | C. 1900s

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Some things need no embellishment. They arrive already complete.
This set of six antique French linen dinner napkins is exactly … Read more Some things need no embellishment. They arrive already complete.
This set of six antique French linen dinner napkins is exactly that — cloth of exceptional quality, cut to a generous twenty-four inch square, finished with a woven satin band border that frames each napkin with quiet authority. No allover pattern competing for attention. No decorative excess. Just very good linen, very well made, in the restrained tradition of the finest French households of the early twentieth century.
The monogram SKM sits in an oval cartouche at the center, embroidered in the classical interlaced style of the period — three letters resolved into a single composed form, as though they had always belonged together. It is the kind of monogram that takes skill to design and more skill to execute, and someone brought both to this.
Six napkins, all identical, all excellent. From the same Martha's Vineyard estate collection that has yielded everything we have offered from this sale — the assembled eye of a woman who understood that the table was worth dressing properly.
Twenty-four inches square. White. Ready.

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Set of 6 | Antique French linen | c. 1900s | Plain weave with woven satin band border | White | Oval cartouche SKM monogram | 24" square | Excellent vintage condition | Martha's Vineyard estate collection See less