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Collections

Set of Man's Coat and Waistcoat Buttons with Casecirca 1805

Not on view
Open leather jewelry case lined with quilted pink silk, holding approximately thirty circular silver and crystal floral-cluster brooches arranged on black velvet, with a handwritten card propped against the front edge
Olive-gold striped silk coat, laid flat, with paste crystal floral buttons along the front and cuff; beside it, an open velvet-lined box displaying a set of matching circular paste button clusters in varying sizes.
Open rectangular case with gold-trimmed edges, pink quilted silk lining on the lid, and a dark velvet interior holding rows of graduated silver floral rosette ornaments set with paste or gemstones, arranged from smaller pieces at front to larger at back.
Small cream-colored calling card with German cursive handwriting in brown ink across four lines, slightly age-spotted, on a black background.
Close-up photograph of three silver paste brooches or buttons set with circular faceted stones in a rosette cluster pattern, centered large stone surrounded by concentric rings of smaller stones, against a black background.
Title
Set of Man's Coat and Waistcoat Buttons with Case
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1805
Medium
Paste stones set in gilt silver
Dimensions
Overall (Diameter) (Coat Buttons): 1 1/4 in. (3.18 cm) Overall (Diameter) (Waistcoat Buttons): 3/4 in. (1.91 cm) Overall (Case): 1 1/8 × 11 × 6 3/8 in. (2.86 × 27.94 × 16.19 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Suzanne A. Saperstein and Michael and Ellen Michelson, with additional funding from the Costume Council, the Edgerton Foundation, Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer, Maureen H. Shapiro, Grace Tsao, and Lenore and Richard Wayne
Accession Number
M.2007.211.953.1-.44
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Deux Siècles de Mode Européenne, 1700-1915. Paris: Arts Décoratifs; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books-Prestel, 2013.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2010.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Europäische Moden, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Prestel, 2012.