Design for a Waistcoat
date: label: Date
content: 1780-1790
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for the embroidery at the border of a man's waistcoat. A fantastical tree grows fro mthe edge of the half of an umbrella rosette. It is flanked by two circumscribed palmettes which together with a pair of smaller ones support bunches of flowers beneath the centres of the segments of the bottom edge of the pocket. A "flanked rosette" motif and leaf rinceau are shown beside the edge of the waist-coat.
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Jacob H. Schiff
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1906-21-199
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pencil and various gouaches on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 16 × 32.4 cm (6 5/16 × 12 3/4 in.)