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Waistcoat

1775-1780 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Man’s court waistcoat with a round neckline, curving fronts and skirts reaching to the top of the thigh. Each front has a pocket and pointed pocket flap. The fronts and pocket flaps are made of cream silk taffeta, the back of cream worsted. The waistcoat is lined with fustian, the pockets with bleached linen; the skirt and pocket-flap linings and front facings are cream silk twill. The waistcoat is embroidered-to-shape with red foil, silver spangles and purl, tamboured silver thread and silk thread in shades of pink and green, in a pattern of small flowers and swags against a background of repeating small floral sprigs, on the pocket flaps, below the pockets and along the front edges and hems. There are 15 worked buttonholes along the left front with 15 silver-gilt and foil passementerie buttons on the right front.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Silk, wool, linen, cotton, silver, enamel; hand-woven, hand-embroidered, tamboured, hand-sewn
Brief description
Man's waistcoat, 1775-1780, British; cream silk taffeta, tamboured, embroidered silver spangles, red foil
Physical description
Man’s court waistcoat with a round neckline, curving fronts and skirts reaching to the top of the thigh. Each front has a pocket and pointed pocket flap. The fronts and pocket flaps are made of cream silk taffeta, the back of cream worsted. The waistcoat is lined with fustian, the pockets with bleached linen; the skirt and pocket-flap linings and front facings are cream silk twill. The waistcoat is embroidered-to-shape with red foil, silver spangles and purl, tamboured silver thread and silk thread in shades of pink and green, in a pattern of small flowers and swags against a background of repeating small floral sprigs, on the pocket flaps, below the pockets and along the front edges and hems. There are 15 worked buttonholes along the left front with 15 silver-gilt and foil passementerie buttons on the right front.
Dimensions
  • Right shoulder to hem length: 75.5cm (approx)
  • Chest under armholes circumference: 101.0cm (approx)
Credit line
Part of the Gorst collection, given by Mrs Katherine Rachael Thomas
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.126-1963

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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