Brass enamel button
Date: 1890-1910
Inventory Number: MUS-117-0023d
Classification: Decorative Arts
Dimensions:
all: 1 7/16 × 1 7/16 × 1/8 in. (3.7 × 3.7 × 0.3 cm)
Description:
Brass clothing button with multi-colored, champleve enamel border. Lattce (screenback) metal-work with glass jewels. Brass loop shank.
In Collection(s)
Signedunsigned
Functionclothing button
Curatorial RemarksButton is in good condition. One brass sphere missing from join between enamel and lattice at 10 o’clock from viewer perspective. Likely made in England.
ProvenanceNina Plaushin, Alexandria, VA
Published ReferencesArmchair Auctions Catalogue, 9 February 2019, Lot No. 268. Description "Jeweled Enamel Screenback. 19th C., a coloful enamel border frames the glittering paste jewels that decorate every intersection of this brass screenback. Brass loop," (picture Included). www.ArmchairAuctions.com
Champleve enamel button. The Big Book of Buttons, Volume 1, Second Edition, Elizabeth Hughes and Marrion Lester, 2010, St. Johann Press, Page 56-73. See Plate 14B, No. 12 for similar border.