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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number COLEM:1952.405.3. Institution name Colchester Collections Object name waistcoat, waiscoat, suit Description Georgian gentleman's cream ribbed silk waistcoat with cream, pale blue, pink and green embroidery. Dated around 1775. Part of a suit. Cream ribbed silk with cream, pale blue and pink roses and green leaves of floss silk embroidered heavily along edges and pocket flaps. A minute embroidered pattern of thistles in a cone or shell cover the ribbed silk. cf. 10 small embroidered buttons and corresponding holes fastening. Flap pockets, waistcoat pointed at fronts. Lining mainly coarse white linen, but silk surrounds. Back-plain linen, vents at lower back with 2 pairs of adjusting tapes. Bottom levels of waistcoat are uneven - perhaps altered. Production date 1775 Production period Georgian Material textile Dimensions Location In Store Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

COLEM:1952.405.3.
Institution name

Colchester Collections
Object name

waistcoat, waiscoat, suit
Description

Georgian gentleman's cream ribbed silk waistcoat with cream, pale blue, pink and green embroidery. Dated around 1775. Part of a suit. Cream ribbed silk with cream, pale blue and pink roses and green leaves of floss silk embroidered heavily along edges and pocket flaps. A minute embroidered pattern of thistles in a cone or shell cover the ribbed silk. cf. 10 small embroidered buttons and corresponding holes fastening. Flap pockets, waistcoat pointed at fronts. Lining mainly coarse white linen, but silk surrounds. Back-plain linen, vents at lower back with 2 pairs of adjusting tapes. Bottom levels of waistcoat are uneven - perhaps altered.
Production date

1775
Production period

Georgian
Material

textile
Dimensions
Location

In Store

Details