Waistcoat panels
date: label: Date
content: 1750–1765
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two front panels of a waistcoat are embroidered in gold and silver metallic thread. Flowering vines and curving sprays with stars make a narrow border down the center front and cover the pocket flaps and spaces below. Style is slightly cutaway and collarless. Design likely inspired by Halley's Comet of late 1758–1759.
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: 1962-54-2-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Waistcoat panels
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic thread, metallic foil Technique: embroidered Label: Metallic thread, coils, sequins and foil embroidered on silk satin weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (a): 75.6 × 39.4 cm (29 3/4 × 15 1/2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (b): 76.2 × 40 cm (30 in. × 15 3/4 in.)