Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Gentleman's full-skirted waistcoat of blue satin with monochrome embroidery of floral forms worked heavily along the front and lower edges and pocket area. White silk moire lining in skirt.
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
- 1730–50
- Accession Number
- 1962-54-7
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Waistcoat
- Medium
- Medium: silk, buckram Technique: embroidered in satin, running and knot stitches, with couched crimped thread on a satin foundation. The garment is lined with silk moiré and the skirt in interlined with buckram (sized heavy linen plain weave)
- Dimensions
- H x W: 88.9 x 89.5 cm (35 in. x 35 1/4 in.)
- made in
- England or France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1962-54-7
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq48ef180bf-623e-417b-90bf-038019cf4d74
