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Button

Collection Type

  • Clothing and accessories

Date

1870-1900

GUSN

GUSN-24244

Description

Circular black button decorated with intaglio gold boteh-shaped leaves and branches. Interior of boteh patterns embellished with alternating red and blue/white.

Details

Descriptive Terms

buttons (fasteners)
accessories
molding (forming)
painting (coating)
foliation (pattern)
scrolling foliage
boteh
Notion
Fastener, Textile
Button
Bakelite
Molded
Painted
Foliate
Button

Associated Building

Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

0.125 (W), 0.625 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker

Accession Number

1998.5128

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