Jacket
Unknown
ca. 1616 · linen, silk, metal · Costume Institute
In this informal bodice, known as a ‘waistcoat’ in the seventeenth century, floral and vegetal motifs are accounted for with scientific clarity but assembled along traditional continuous meanders. Like seventeenth-century still-life painting in its global reach and analytical approach, the jacket suggests both abundance and taxonomy.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1616
- Medium
- linen, silk, metal
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1923
