Design for the Embroidery of the Left Bottom Corner of a Man's Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," "Gilet" Design
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1785
name: label: Designer
content: Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The corner is rectangular. The intervals between the buttonholes are decorated alternatively with a bunch of flowers rising from a rinceau calyx and with a fruit festoon suspended from rinceau spirals. Oblong pocket with eggs beneath a plant and in a rose wreath flanked by quivers crossed with bows. Three birds are shown beneath the pocket upon a hoop from which lambrequins with flower boughs and tassels are suspended.
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 Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1920-36-54
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and gouache on glazed tracing paper
label: Dimensions
content: 15.4 × 22.8 cm (6 1/16 in. × 9 in.)