Waistcoat fragments
date: label: Date
content: late 18th–early 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Waistcoat fragments consist of a portion of the center front and a pocket flap. Center section shows curling vines with single blossoms that surround remaining four buttonholes. Pocket flap has classical architectural elements, griffins, birds, and curling floral motifs. Both in multicolored silk on an ivory ground.
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 Marian Hague
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1971-50-127-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Waistcoat fragments
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: embroidered on taffeta
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (a): 21 × 8.1 cm (8 1/4 × 3 3/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (b): 11.1 × 25.1 cm (4 3/8 × 9 7/8 in.)