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 of the left bottom part of a man's waistcoat. A stripe is shown along the edge of the waistcoat; it is decorated with leaves alternating with heads. Leaves grow from its obliquely rising part. Beneath the bottom point of the pocket grows a mushroom like plant. It is flanked by two bunches of flowers and leaves, some of which are big leaf scrolls. The sketched decoration of the flap of the pocket is floral.
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: 1906-21-198
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: 16 × 32.4 cm (6 5/16 × 12 3/4 in.)