Waistcoat fronts
1770
- Medium
- Medium: silk, paint Technique: embroidery using float, satin and chain stitch, painted details
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Two fronts of a gentleman's waistcoat, with no collar, cut-away hem edge, and shaped pocket flaps, embroidered in twenty-four colors of silk, on an ivory silk ground. Overall tiny floral sprig, floral border at center front edges, floral sprigs and swagged garlands at lower edge.