Design for Embroidery, Gentleman's Waistcoat Pocket
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1780
name: label: Probably
content: Jean-François Bony, French, 1754–1825
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rectangular corner of a waistcoat or gilet, showing the welt pocket. The welt includes black pseudo-Chinese characters on either side of two parrots in blue, yellow, orange and red with green palmettes in their beaks. Chinoiserie flowers in pink, purple, yellow, blue, red, orange, and brown surround the welt.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1962-59-2
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and gouache, pen and black ink on cream paper
label: Dimensions
content: 21.6 × 28 cm (8 1/2 × 11 in.)