
Button ‘Cat trying to catch a lizard’. copper
Antique buttons art. Button for a long time served as a decorative ornament. Buttons were made from precious metals, coral, amber, pearls. The shape, size, decoration and number of buttons on clothing informed about a person’s wealth and social status. Some garments were often more than a hundred buttons. Fur coat might be cheaper than the existing buttons on it. Historically, fashions in buttons have also reflected trends in applied aesthetics and the applied visual arts, with button-makers using techniques from jewellery making, ceramics, sculpture, painting, printmaking, metalworking, weaving and others.

Bone Button, an unusual bone carving ‘Birds’

Button ‘Colonel’. copper

Button ‘Eear of corn’. Copper, glass

Button ‘Esmeralda and her dancing goat’. Copper, silver

Button ‘Female head’. silver

Button ‘Fighting children’. Copper

Button ‘Golfer’. Copper, tin

Button ‘Hercules and the Cretan Bull’. copper

Button ‘Madonna and Child’ (on Raphael). copper

Button ‘Native American’ (based on painting by Benjamin West ‘The Death of General Wolfe’). Copper

Button ‘Skating Rink’. copper

Button. Enamel, synthetic diamonds, copper

Buttons ‘Everyday scenes’. Gold, ceramic

Buttons ‘Hummingbird’. Gold painted. China

Buttons in Art Nouveau style ‘Women head’. silver

Buttons ‘Portraits’. Copper, celluloid

Buttons with images of different cocks. copper

Buttons with images of different Owl heads. Copper, celluloid gems

Buttons with the image of different dogs. Copper, porcelain

kitten and puppy playing over an iridescent shell liner. Circa 1880s

Set of 6 buttons ‘Dancing’. Silver. England
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