FIRST EMPIRE BATISTE DOILY Decorated with an openwork lace border featuring crowned imperial eagles in laurel branches, stars, bees and flowers. Presented on a later green satin background. 88 x 88 cm B.O.E. (small traces of rust) Provenance : Former Napoleonic collection of the Prince's Palace of Monaco (1st sale, lot 90). According to the inventories of the Napoleonic Museum of the Princely Palace of Monaco, this tablecloth for a pedestal table came from the imperial trousseau. A batiste doily, from the First Empire period