Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Gentleman's waistcoat in off-white silk with metallic, embroidered lightly on the front and lower edges and pocket area with gold thread, colored metallic sequins and coils of wire.
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
- 1765–75
- Accession Number
- 1962-54-8
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Waistcoat
- Medium
- Medium: silk, metal Technique: embroidered with metal-wrapped silk, sequins (pailletes) and coils of wire of two types; on a foundation of plain weave silk with continuous supplementary weft of metal-wrapped silk
- Dimensions
- H x W: 77.5 × 76.2 cm (30 1/2 × 30 in.)
- made in
- France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1962-54-8
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq48ede50d6-a9de-42f6-87d3-479df7cb7bb0
