Design for Embroidered Waistcoat
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1785
name: label: Designer
content: Mademoiselle Favel
label: For
content: Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The pentagonal design similar to 1920-36-42. Green edges with strips of triangles along those of the waistcoat and the lateral and bottom ones of the flap of the pocket. Boughs rise from them. A plant and festoons decorate the flap, festoons the field beneath the pocket. The upper field is intended to show rows of boughs of different designs and directions in alternate horizontal rows.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1920-36-43
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and gouache, watercolor on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 22.9 x 40.7 cm (9 x 16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 22.7 x 40.0
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)