Waistcoat
1750-1755 (made)
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Man’s waistcoat with a round neckline, curving fronts and skirts reaching to between the top of the knee and mid-thigh. Each front has a pocket and pocket flap. The fronts, back skirts and pocket flaps are made of turquoise cut and uncut velvet on a voided satin ground, the back and pockets of blue satin worsted. The waistcoat skirts and pocket flaps are lined with blue plain weave silk. The waistcoat is woven-to-shape in a pattern of large flowers and leaves against a epeating abstract diagonal pattern, on the pocket flaps and along the front edges, hems and back skirts. There are 12 worked buttonholes along the left front; there were 18 buttons on the right front, all now missing.
The lining of the fronts, back, right front and right back skirts have been removed.
The lining of the fronts, back, right front and right back skirts have been removed.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silk, linen, worsted; hand-woven, velvet and satin weaves, hand-sewing |
| Brief description | Man's waistcoat, 1755-50, British; Turquoise silk velvet, woven-to-shape |
| Physical description | Man’s waistcoat with a round neckline, curving fronts and skirts reaching to between the top of the knee and mid-thigh. Each front has a pocket and pocket flap. The fronts, back skirts and pocket flaps are made of turquoise cut and uncut velvet on a voided satin ground, the back and pockets of blue satin worsted. The waistcoat skirts and pocket flaps are lined with blue plain weave silk. The waistcoat is woven-to-shape in a pattern of large flowers and leaves against a epeating abstract diagonal pattern, on the pocket flaps and along the front edges, hems and back skirts. There are 12 worked buttonholes along the left front; there were 18 buttons on the right front, all now missing. The lining of the fronts, back, right front and right back skirts have been removed. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by the Rev. Dr. N.H.C. Ruddock |
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| Accession number | T.45-1918 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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