Waistcoat

1795-1800 (made)
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Man’s court waistcoat with a 2-inch (5 cm) standing collar, straight fronts and skirts reaching to the top of the hip. There are no pockets, only a pointed pocket flap on each front. The fronts and pocket flaps are made of ivory silk twill, the back of linen. The waistcoat is lined with linen; the front skirts are ivory silk twill, and the front facings ivory silk taffeta. The waistcoat is appliquéd with white silk cord and embroidered-to-shape with silk floss in yellow and shades of green, blue and pink in a pattern of flowers and leaves with a trellised border, on the pocket flaps, collar and along the front edges and hems. The fronts are embroidered with repeating floral sprigs. There are 8 worked buttonholes along the left front with 5 (3 missing) embroidered buttons on the right front.


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Object Type
Materials and Techniques
Silk, linen; hand-woven, hand-embroidered, hand-sewn
Brief Description
Man's court waistcoat, 1795-1800, English; ivory silk, embroidered coloured silks
Physical Description
Man’s court waistcoat with a 2-inch (5 cm) standing collar, straight fronts and skirts reaching to the top of the hip. There are no pockets, only a pointed pocket flap on each front. The fronts and pocket flaps are made of ivory silk twill, the back of linen. The waistcoat is lined with linen; the front skirts are ivory silk twill, and the front facings ivory silk taffeta. The waistcoat is appliquéd with white silk cord and embroidered-to-shape with silk floss in yellow and shades of green, blue and pink in a pattern of flowers and leaves with a trellised border, on the pocket flaps, collar and along the front edges and hems. The fronts are embroidered with repeating floral sprigs. There are 8 worked buttonholes along the left front with 5 (3 missing) embroidered buttons on the right front.
Dimensions
  • Right shoulder to right hem length: 86.0cm (approx)
  • Chest under armholes circumference: 88.0cm (approx)
Marks and Inscriptions
  • Talbot Hughes (handwritten in black ink on inside left front and on right front facing)
  • EF1374 (roughly stitched in black thread on back lining below collar)
Credit line
Given by Messrs Harrods
Object history
Talbot Hughes collection
Collection
Accession Number
T.1089-1913

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record createdJune 24, 2009
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