Waistcoat
date: label: Date
content: mid- 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Gentleman's waistcoat of off-white taffeta in a collarless, cutaway style and shaped pocket flaps. Embroidered in multicolored silks. Body has lattice arrangement of sprigs, flower buds and X-shapes while center front has a floral vine decoration. Pocket flaps have ribbon garlands over a gazebo-like structure. Below flaps, white birds, flowers and floral garlands.
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: 1962-54-22
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Waistcoat
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: embroidered
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 69.2 × 76.2 cm (27 1/4 in. × 30 in.)