Vest

Museum number:
7-7270
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21070007270
Alternate number:
426 (previous number (Design Dept.))
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.02
Description:
Vest made of silk, mirrors and metal disks. Warp faced twill, embroidered, embroidered covered buttons. Colors are cream with varicolored embroidery in floral motifs.
Donor:
Albert M. Bender and Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Europe
Verbatim coll. place:
Europe
Culture or time period:
European
Materials:
Metal and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Vest, accession number 7-7270, described as Vest made of silk, mirrors and metal disks. Warp faced twill, embroidered, embroidered covered buttons. Colors are cream with varicolored embroidery in floral motifs.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Vest, accession number 7-7270, described as Vest made of silk, mirrors and metal disks. Warp faced twill, embroidered, embroidered covered buttons. Colors are cream with varicolored embroidery in floral motifs.

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