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Button sample
(c. 1960)
Medium
plastic, glass, metal, cotton
Measurements
5.5 × 5.5 × 3.1 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by Mary Lipshut, Member, 1995
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Accession Number
1995.884
Department
Australian Fashion and Textiles
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest
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.