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Description: | A Post Medieval - possibly Modern gold button (late 16th - early 19th century).Small gold button in the shape of a flowerhead, perhaps a daisy, with solid centre and petals forming shallow compartments filled with a composition, perhaps glass inlay, some of which is now missing. Single loop attachment in gold at the centre of the back. Approximately 0.7 cm diameter.This naturalistic flowerhead button is difficult to place. The fine tooling on front suggests age and the working at the back, together with uneven outline, suggests that it has been hand cut not stamped. The button was submitted as medieval but has been passed by the curator of medieval collections to me as a post-medieval object. I do not have a parallel for it, although the use of composition in this way is found on gold dress fittings submitted through the Treasure Act, such as TAR 2002, no. 174 from Bletchingdon, Oxon, there dated to the late 16th or early 17th Century, and that may be the right date range for this button. It may be later still, perhaps 18th or early 19th century. In the absence of any marks or close parallels, we do not feel that there is enough evidence to confirm that it is more than 300 years old.Dr Dora Thornton, Curator of Renaissance Collections & J. Rudoe British Museum 29.5.09Dimensions: diameter: 10.46mm; thickness: 4.16mm; weight: 0.79g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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