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They are embroidered in coloured silks on an ivory ribbed silk. The design for this image, known as <i>Les Macaques</i> can be found in a pattern book of embroidery designs for waistcoats in the Musée Historique des Tissus, in Lyon, France, executed in watercolours. There are no instructions for the floral design worked on the waistcoat’s front edges or the pockets; the embroiderer has invented one inspired by the watercolour, using palm fronds, sprays of grass and floral sprigs. \r\n\r\nIn addition to floral patterns, figurative and pictorial designs, such as tigers, dogs and scenes from the opera, were popular  and appear on other embroidered waistcoats of this period. The Lyon pattern books contain lions, air balloons, architectural ruins and pastoral scenes among their wealth of designs.","physicalDescription":"A man's silk waistcoat embroidered with silk in a pattern of monkeys, backed with linen. The moneky on the left is a lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus) and the monkey on the right is a crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis). 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Prince Metternich was Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Fuerst von Metternich-Winneburg-Beilstein.\r\n\r\nPurchased for 10 pounds from Baron Leopold Podhragy.\r\n\r\nThe waistcoat was displayed in the \"Textile Arts of France\" exhibition from 27 March 1979 for about twelve months.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"square cut, 1780s, French; Cream silk, embroidered, monkeys, K von Metternich","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Avril Hart and Susan North, Historical Fashion in Detail: the 17th and 18th centuries, London: V&A Publications, 1998.","id":"AUTH406477"},"details":"p.108","free":""}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Unique","id":"THES48864"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"monkeys (animals)","id":"x30136"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["T.49-1948"],"accessionNumberNum":"49","accessionNumberPrefix":"T","accessionYear":1948,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-10-22","recordCreationDate":"2006-08-16","availableToBook":false}}