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’. copperButton ‘Eear of corn’. Copper, glassButton ‘Esmeralda and her dancing goat’. Copper, silverButton ‘Female head’. silverButton ‘Fighting children’. CopperButton ‘Golfer’. Copper, tinButton ‘Hercules and the Cretan Bull’. copperButton ‘Madonna and Child’ (on Raphael). copperButton ‘Native American’ (based on painting by Benjamin West ‘The Death of General Wolfe’). CopperButton ‘Skating Rink’. copperButton. Enamel, synthetic diamonds, copperButtons ‘Everyday scenes’. Gold, ceramicButtons ‘Hummingbird’. Gold painted. ChinaButtons in Art Nouveau style ‘Women head’. silverButtons ‘Portraits’. Copper, celluloidButtons with images of different cocks. copperButtons with images of different Owl heads. Copper, celluloid gemsButtons with the image of different dogs. Copper, porcelainkitten and puppy playing over an iridescent shell liner. Circa 1880sSet of 6 buttons ‘Dancing’. Silver. England
