Design for a Waistcoat
date: label: Date
content: 1780-1790
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for the embroidery at the border of a man's waistcoat. A kind of moulding is shown along the edge of the waistcoat. Beside its using part is a crenellated border, from which leaves and halves of blossoms grow alternatively. Beneath the pocket edge is a tripartite motif. Its central part consists of half a blossom from which a leaf two scrolls and two feathers rise. It is flanked by scroll and leaf motifs. Root like boughs hang downward.
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 Jacob H. Schiff
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1906-21-197
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pencil and various gouaches on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 18.2 × 33.9 cm (7 3/16 × 13 3/8 in.)