Portion of a Waistcoat (Front)

France, Lyon

Date

1775/1800

Medium

Silk and gilt-metal strips, warp-float faced twill weave with supplementary facing wefts bound by secondary binding warps and three-color supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet

Dimensions

48.2 × 47.8 cm (19 × 18 7/8 in.); Repeat: 13.5 × 8 cm (5 1/4 × 3 1/8 in.)

Department

Textiles

Credit line

Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society