LONDON.- A wine-stained napkin from an artists’ “den of iniquity” is set to sell at auction for about £1,500.

The embroidered cotton cloth was signed during a boozy night at Soho’s legendary Colony Room Club by regulars including artist Tracey Emin, former Clash guitarist Mike Jones and architect David Adjaye.

It was set up in Dean Street as a private members drinking club in 1948 — when the law forced pubs to close in the afternoon — and run for decades by its famously rude owner Muriel Belcher until her death in 1979 and eventually closed in 2008.

The club always attracted artists with members including musician George Melly and several figures from the Young British Artists (YBA) movement who dominated the London art scene in the 1990s, as well as Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon whose portrait of Belcher sold at Sotheby’s in Paris for around £12 million in December 2007.

Luke Oxley, a former artist-turned art dealer, bought several items from the club’s archive when it closed down and said he thought the napkin would be bought by someone interested in the YBA scene.

He said: “It is nice because it’s signed by all those people who were members at the time but it’s got wine stains on it as well so it’s been around the block.

“As as a club anything went, it was a scruffy den of iniquity and a fun place.”

The napkin will be part of Sworders’ London Auction on December 11. Online bids can be accepted through website sworder.co.uk.