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Jacket

Date: ca. 1616
Culture: British
Medium: linen, silk, metal
Dimensions: L. at center back: 16 ½ in. (42 cm).
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1923
Accession Number: 23.170.1
Not on view
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In this seventeenth-century jacket, 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.
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