Waistcoat
date: label: Date
content: 1780–95
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Brown silk waistcoat with a standing collar and welt pockets. Embroidered on center front and lower edges with floral motifs and a chinoiserie design of Chinese figures in dragon boats.
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: 1962-54-56
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Waistcoat
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: chain stitch embroidery made with a tambour hook in twenty-four colors of silk, on silk plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 68.6 x 46.4 cm (27 x 18 1/4 in.)