Waistcoat
date: label: Date
content: 1785–1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Gentleman's waistcoat with twelve buttons. Design of figures – possibly Cupid and Psyche – at the bottom. Figures are flanked on either side by a columned temple and a boy holding a bird. Silk is figured with horizontal stripes with alternate rows decorated with leaves and a twining ribbon.
place: label: made in
content: Europe
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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: 1962-54-49
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Waistcoat
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: silk plain weave twill with supplementary warp and supplementary wefts