Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Gentleman's waistcoat with twelve buttons. Design of figures – possibly Cupid and Psyche – at the bottom. Figures are flanked on either side by a columned temple and a boy holding a bird. Silk is figured with horizontal stripes with alternate rows decorated with leaves and a twining ribbon.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 1785–1800
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
- Medium
- Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: silk plain weave twill with supplementary warp and supplementary wefts
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Waistcoat
