Waistcoat front
date: label: Date
content: 1780–95
notes: label: Description
content: Waistcoat right front panel with standing collar, straight hem edge, and pocket welts in ivory silk. Embroidered in twelve colors of silk floss, with metal-wrapped silk threads, coils of metal wire, sequins, and paste jewels. Overall tiny floral sprig, small-scale floral border at center front, and a design of a blindfolded Cupid being driven by a bird. Trimmed with four color woven silk fringe.
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: 1962-54-36-a
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Waistcoat front
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metal-wrapped silk, metal wire, paillettes, paste jewels Technique: embroidery using satin, stem and knot stitches on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 66 x 26 cm (26 x 10 1/4 in.)