Design for the Embroidered Decoration of a Main's Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1785
name: label: Designer
content: Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The design showing a piece off the upright edge over the oblique one is irregularly pentagonal and formed by a green strip. The edges of the flap of the pocket are green with points along the inner sides. From the bottom edge rise three leaf boughs and four stems which pass between the top edge into the field of the waistcoat. It shows similarly treated edges as the flap and a leaf garland along them.
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 Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1920-36-42
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and gouache on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 21.5 × 38.4 cm (8 7/16 × 15 1/8 in.)