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Waistcoat fronts
From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Two waistcoat fronts with a coral-colored foundation with small, all-over floral design. Ornamented at the center front and lower edges and pockets with gold metallic cornucopias and sprays of polychrome silk flowers. In seven colors of silk and three different metallic yarns.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own descriptionCredit lineWaistcoat fronts. 1740–50. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf. CC0.
