Waistcoat panel
date: label: Date
content: 1785–95
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Left front of gentleman's waistcoat with embroidered design of a lizard, snail, crickets, and butterflies.
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: 1962-54-44
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Waistcoat panel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery on silk foundation Technique: embroidered in satin, stem and knot stitches in 14 colors of silk, appliqué of dark pink silk plain weave, silk chenille (4 shades) and silk cord couched onto warp-faced plain weave foundation Label: Satin, stem and knot stitches in silk, appliqué of dark pink silk plain weave, and silk chenille and silk cord couched onto warp-faced plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 63.5 x 27.6 cm (25 x 10 7/8 in.)