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Waistcoat
From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
White silk satin waistcoat with white silk plain weave back; with standing collar and straight hemline, pocket flaps and covered buttons. Embroidered with polychrome silks in fifty-three colors, with an over-all floral sprig, floral border at center front, and a design of a boy playing a horn with a turkey at the lower edge.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own descriptionCredit lineWaistcoat. 1780–95. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf. CC0.
