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.
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Title:Waistcoat
Date:1615–20
Culture:British
Medium:linen, silk, metal
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1923
Object Number:23.170.1
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