Tablecloth with birds in wreaths
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Linen damask napkin with pattern of thistles and birds. Center field: pattern shows two horizontal oval fields: Encircled with broad checkered band with left and right a half knot containing rosette. Symmetrical inner drawing of a stem with swerved lance leaves with three palmette flowers and two turned parrots with turned heads. Connected with field 1 by a vase; encircled by a pointed oval band with branches and birds. Left and right a halved knot. Symmetrical inner drawing of a trunk with lance leaves and as candlesticks swerved side arms, to which sunflowers and on which two turned birds. In the corners pomegranates and carnations in wreath. The edges show pointed oval vines with symmetrically repeated birds, fruits and flowers. In the corners always four rosettes. Along the standing edges a block border. Lying edges framed in hems with stripe and block border.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description