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Button

Unknownca. 1780

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

These four buttons depict a young woman catching a bird, from bird call to bird cage, all depicted in carved ivory over a colored foil ground.

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  • Title: Button
  • Creator: Unknown
  • Date Created: ca. 1780
  • Type: Button
  • Rights: Bequest of Julia Hutchins Wolcott
  • Medium: Ivory, metal foil, gilt metal, pewter
  • Provenance: Julia Hutchins Wolcott
  • Dimensions: Diam.: 3.8 cm (1 1/2 in.)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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