Unfinished Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat of Pattern No. 863 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: Left bottom corner. Very slightly rising bottom edge. Flower festoons and flower boughs and plants rising from "S" slopes and spirals. Birds. Bottom center: a fruit bowl. Reverse, in opposite direction: fragment of an unfinished design, pencil, ink. Rows of perspectively shown rings alternating with dots.
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: 1920-36-311
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, brush and gouache on grayish paper
label: Dimensions
content: 17.4 × 26.2 cm (6 7/8 × 10 5/16 in.)