Nightcap
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: Tall man's nightcap with deep bicorne cuff in salmon-colored ribbed silk, brocaded with a symmetrical floral design in silver metallic yarns and blue, green, yellow, pink, and white silks.
place: label: made in
content: France or Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline E. Greenleaf
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1952-47-2
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Nightcap
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic yarn (metal foil wound around silk core) and flat foil strips Technique: plain weave with discontinuous supplementary wefts (brocading) Label: silk and metallic brocade
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 27 x 60 cm (10 5/8 x 23 5/8 in.)