Waistcoat fronts
1780
- Medium
- Medium: silk, metal wire, sequins, paste jewels Technique: embroidery using satin, stem and knot stitches on 7&1 satin weave
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Left and right fronts of a gentleman's waistcoat with no collar, shaped lower edge and pocket flaps, embroidered in fourteen colors of silk with sequins and paste jewels on an ivory silk ground. Overall tiny floral sprig, floral border at center front, and design of sailing ships and swagged garlands at lower edge.