Design for Embroidery, Gentleman's Waistcoat Pocket
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1785
name: label: Designer
content: Mademoiselle Calva, French, active late 18th century
label: For
content: Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for the embroidery of the left bottom part of a man's waistcoat or gilet featuring a pocket. The design features two fantastical peacocks preying for insects, plants, and festoons. Blue flowers and yellow leaves decorate the rectangular pocket flap, and a branch with blue flowers and yellow leaves rises above and to the left of the flap. Design includes buttonholes on the left. Verso: five yellow birds with yellow leaves rising from two of them.
place: label: made in
content: Lyon, France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1920-36-83
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, pen and brown ink, graphite on cream laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24 × 27.4 cm (9 7/16 × 10 13/16 in.)