Waistcoat front
date: label: Date
content: 1740–60
notes: label: Description
content: Left and right fronts of a gentleman's waistcoat. Large metallic scrolls and polychrome silk flowers on a textured ivory ground. Brocaded in 13 colors of silk and 6 metallic yarns.
place: label: made in
content: Lyon, 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: 1962-54-4-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Waistcoat front
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk and metal-wrapped silk-core threads on silk foundation Technique: plain weave with supplementary warp float patterning and discontinuous supplementary wefts (brocading)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (each front): 90.2 × 47 cm (35 1/2 × 18 1/2 in.)