Uncut waistcoat fronts
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two incomplete panels for a waistcoat of white satin embroidered in multicolored silks. Corners beneath pocket flap show a design of two hunting hounds attacking a wild boar. Pocket flaps have butterflies, and front opening edge has dense flower cluster borders. Body has an open design of blue and yellow sprigs. Embroidery for the lapels in the opposite corner.
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: 1962-54-32-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Uncut waistcoat fronts
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: embroidered on satin weave Label: silk embroidery in satin, stem and knot stitches on silk satin weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (a): 74.3 × 55.6 cm (29 1/4 × 21 7/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (b): 73.3 × 55.2 cm (28 7/8 × 21 3/4 in.)