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Waistcoat fronts
From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Left and right fronts of a gentleman's waistcoat with no collar, shaped lower edge and pocket flaps, embroidered in fourteen colors of silk with sequins and paste jewels on an ivory silk ground. Overall tiny floral sprig, floral border at center front, and design of sailing ships and swagged garlands at lower edge.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own descriptionCredit lineWaistcoat fronts. ca. 1760. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf. CC0.
