Woman's short coat
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Short coat hand-sewn with wide sleeves, small round neck opening, and overlap buttoned at neck with two ball buttons and at right side seam with three buttons. Body of dark gray silk with woven pattern of scrolls and cruciform figures in staggered rows. Around the neck, sleeves, front and lower edges is a border of white satin embroidered with landscapes, figures and flowers in silk satin stitch and couched metal threads. The white border is framed by narrow borders of blue satin and two metal brocaded gallooms in different widths.
place: label: made in
content: China
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1942-30-4
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Woman's short coat
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic yarns Technique: embroidered on damask weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 105.4 x 132.1 cm (41 1/2 x 52 in.)