Waistcoat
date: label: Date
content: 1785–90
notes: label: Description
content: Gentleman's waistcoat with standing collar, straight hem edge and pocket welts, with ten worked buttonholes and covered buttons, lined with twill. Embroidered in twenty-five colors of silk floss and chenille on an ivory silk taffeta ground. Overall small floral sprig, with a deep border of irises and other flowers down center front and across bottom. On the larger flowers at the bottom, caterpillars are embroidered in various shades of chenille.
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: Gift of Monsieur Robert de Micheaux
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1956-155-1
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Waistcoat
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: embroidery in satin, stem and knot stitches; couched silk cord; appliqué of silk ribbon on plain weave Label: Satin, stem and knot stitches in silk, couched silk cord, and appliquéd silk ribbon on silk plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 63 x 43 cm (24 13/16 x 16 15/16 in.)