Antique buttons art
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
