Object Details
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Blue and green changeable silk coat with collar, cuffs, pockets, and front and back openings embroidered with soft polychrome silks in design of icicles with pendant sprays of minute pansies, daisies and pinks; alternating with monogram "I.C.", decorated with rosette and feathery foliage. Lined throughout with ivory silk plain twill. Buttons covered of same material and embroidered with minute flowers. Sleeve lining of linen plain cloth.
Date
1775–1800
Accession Number
1939-67-1
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
costume & accessories
Coat
Medium
Medium: silk compound weave embroidered with silks, and lined with silk twill weave Technique: embroidered
Dimensions
H x W (Height of Center back; Shoulder Width): 106.7 × 27.9 cm (42 × 11 in.)
made in
France
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1939-67-1