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Waistcoat Fronts (France)
This is a Waistcoat fronts. It is dated 1765–1780 and we acquired it in 1962. Its medium is silk, metal, sequins and its technique is embroidery using coils of gold colored wire and sequins on a plain weave foundation with continuous supplementary metallic wefts in a twill binding. It is a part of the Textiles department.
Right Front of a Gentleman's Waistcoat
France, 1760–1775
Embroidery using coils of gold wire and sequins (paillettes) on silk plain weave with continuous supplementary weft in a twill binding
Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf, 1962-54-9
In the eighteenth century this foundation fabric was known as cloth of gold.
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 x D (each front): 82.2 × 25.1 cm (32 3/8 × 9 7/8 in.) H x W (as photographed): 82.2 × 73 cm (32 3/8 × 28 3/4 in.)
Cite this object as
Waistcoat Fronts (France); silk, metal, sequins; H x W x D (each front): 82.2 × 25.1 cm (32 3/8 × 9 7/8 in.) H x W (as photographed): 82.2 × 73 cm (32 3/8 × 28 3/4 in.); Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf; 1962-54-9-a,b
