Table service with rare fishing scene, tablecloth... Lot 21

Table service with rare fishing scene, tablecloth and ten napkins, 2nd half of the 19th century. Banquet tablecloth and its eighteen napkins in beautiful linen damask with a rare lake fishing scene. In the center, a young person sitting on the bank of a patient lake, a fishing rod in hand. Beside him, a young man kneels down and holds a fish out to another young woman's raised apron, while a standing man raises a large net in the air. A wide border decorated with various scenes of fishermen at work, some on a boat, others on the shore, and a group of men, women and children eating their meal around a cauldron on the fire. Willows, reeds, rushes, water lilies, ducks and water hens, a large suspended fishing net, pikes, carp, perch and eels on the ground complete the scenery. CH number embroidered in red and white. Dim. tablecloth 2.80 m x 2.10 m. Dim. napkins 92 cm x 77 cm. (nice condition)