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Waistcoat Front (France)
This is a Waistcoat front. It is dated 1740–60 and we acquired it in 1962. Its medium is silk and metal-wrapped silk-core threads on silk foundation and its technique is plain weave with supplementary warp float patterning and discontinuous supplementary wefts (brocading). It is a part of the Textiles department.
Right Front of a Gentleman's Waistcoat
Lyons, France, 1740–1760
Woven fabric: Plain-weave silk with supplementary warp floats and discontinuous supplementary wefts (brocading) in thirteen colors of silk and six metallic yarns
Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf, 1962-54-4
This object was
bequest of
Richard Cranch Greenleaf (American, 1887–1961).
It is credited Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf.
Its dimensions are
H x W (each front): 90.2 × 47 cm (35 1/2 × 18 1/2 in.)
Cite this object as
Waistcoat Front (France); silk and metal-wrapped silk-core threads on silk foundation; H x W (each front): 90.2 × 47 cm (35 1/2 × 18 1/2 in.); Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf; 1962-54-4-a,b
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008.
