Waistcoat
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Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Brown silk waistcoat with a standing collar and welt pockets. Embroidered on center front and lower edges with floral motifs and a chinoiserie design of Chinese figures in dragon boats.
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
- 1780–95
- Accession Number
- 1962-54-56
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Waistcoat
- Medium
- Medium: silk Technique: chain stitch embroidery made with a tambour hook in twenty-four colors of silk, on silk plain weave
- Dimensions
- H x W: 68.6 x 46.4 cm (27 x 18 1/4 in.)
- made in
- Lyon, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1962-54-56
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4b28a28c4-9456-4bc2-a5c1-927c2552206f
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