Coat from Three Piece Man's Suit

Italy or France

Date

Louis XVI period (1774–1789), 1750/75

Medium

Generally known as gold and silver cloth, warp-faced plain weave; metallic foil cut in strips in parts wound around a silk fibre core and in other areas used as flat strips; metallic foil with paillettes, outlined with metallic thread with tiny areas of netting

Dimensions

109.2 × 58.3 cm (43 × 23 in.)

Department

Textiles

Credit line

Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment