Waistcoat fronts
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1760
notes: label: Description
content: Left and right fronts of a gentleman's waistcoat with no collar, shaped lower edge and pocket flaps, embroidered in fourteen colors of silk with sequins and paste jewels on an ivory silk ground. Overall tiny floral sprig, floral border at center front, and design of sailing ships and swagged garlands at lower edge.
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: 1962-54-25-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Waistcoat fronts
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metal wire, sequins, paste jewels Technique: embroidery using satin, stem and knot stitches on 7&1 satin weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 77 x 28 cm (30 5/16 x 11 in.)