Caption:
Portion of a Waistcoat (Front). France, Lyon. Date: 1775-1800. Dimensions: 48.2 × 47.8 cm (19 × 18 7/8 in.)
Repeat: 13.5 × 8 cm (5 1/4 × 3 1/8 in.). 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. Origin: France.