Waistcoat fronts
date: label: Date
content: 1740–50
notes: label: Description
content: Two waistcoat fronts with a coral-colored foundation with small, all-over floral design. Ornamented at the center front and lower edges and pockets with gold metallic cornucopias and sprays of polychrome silk flowers. In seven colors of silk and three different metallic yarns.
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: 1962-54-6-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Waistcoat fronts
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metal thread Technique: supplementary warp floats and discontinuous supplementary wefts (brocading) in plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (each front): 93 x 44.1 cm (36 5/8 x 17 3/8 in.)