Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Waistcoat right front panel with a design of blindfolded Cupid being driven by a bird. Trimmed with polychrome fringe.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- late 18th century
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
- Medium
- Technique: Embroidery using satin, stem and knot stitches in twelve colors of floss silk and metal-wrapped silk; coils of metal wire, sequins (paillettes) and paste jewels sewn on silk plain weave foundation. Trimmed with four color woven silk fringe.
- Dimensions
- L: 66 x W: 26 cm (one front)
- Type
- embroidery & stitching
- Waistcoat front
