Waistcoat fronts
date: label: Date
content: 1770–80
notes: label: Description
content: Two fronts of a gentleman's waistcoat, with no collar, cut-away hem edge, and shaped pocket flaps, embroidered in twenty-four colors of silk, on an ivory silk ground. Overall tiny floral sprig, floral border at center front edges, floral sprigs and swagged garlands at lower edge.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1962-54-23-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Waistcoat fronts
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, paint Technique: embroidery using float, satin and chain stitch, painted details
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (each): 67 x 26 cm (26 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.)