Waistcoat
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Gentleman's waistcoat of white ribbed silk has a small standing collar with revers and is cut straight across the bottom. Applied border of navy blue silk is decorated with single flower heads and covers the front collar, center front, pocket flaps, and the bottom edge. Body has small detached geometrical motifs while small clusters of leaves and flowers decorate the center front. Larger leaf and flower clusters with elaborately shaded ribbon garland decorate the spaces above and below the pocket flaps. Pockets flaps have applied pale blue medallions filled with a single large flower head.
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: 1962-54-39
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Waistcoat
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: embroidered and appliquéd
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 67 × 50 cm (26 3/8 × 19 11/16 in.)