Collection Online
Button sample
Medium
plastic, glass, metal, cotton
Measurements
5.5 × 5.5 × 3.1 cm
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Accession Number
1995.884
Department
Australian Fashion and Textiles
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by Mary Lipshut, Member, 1995
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Physical description
Large ornate circular button decorated with plastic beads and glass gemstones of various sizes in bronze, yellow and opalescent colours. From outside edge to peak: single band of bronze pearlised plastic beads, double row of bugle beads standing upright, band of bronze beads, circle of yellow glass gemstones set in metal clasps, band of bronze bugle beads standing upright, single yellow gemstone at peak inside metal clasp.