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Description: | A complete cast copper alloy enamelled button of post-medieval date, AD 1600 - 1800. The button is in the form of a seven-petalled flower with each lobe forming a small flower head in its own right. Each lobe is decorated internally with four cells of alternating blue and white enamelled petals arranged around a central raised boss. The innermost section of the button is a domed boss, again imitating a seven-petalled flowerhead, again with alternating white and blue enamelling. There are two white petals next to each other. There are traces of black or dark green enamel in lines between the flowerheads but this is now mostly degraded.On the reverse of the button is an integrally cast tab with a circular hole through it forming an attachment loop, located in the hollow formed by the raised boss on the other side. The tab is broken off across the hole. The button is 32.6mm diameter, 6.8mm thick and 10.82g.Similar examples are illustrated in Egan, G, 2005, 'Material Culture in London in an age of transition: Tudor and Stuart period finds c 1450-c 1700 from excavations at riverside sites in Southwark', pages 48-9, particularly no 183. Buttons of this type date to between AD 1600-1800 and they may have been used as a cloak fasteners. A very close parallel is BERK-C7AD0D except it has black and white enamel.This button may be an example of a "Stuart Enamel". Record SOM-BB0BB4 notes that according to Geoff Egan, the manufacturers of this sort of material also produced enamelled buckles, buttons, stirrups and ornate candlesticks. This material was being made at the time of the Commonwealth and later (if not slightly earlier as well). The range was formerly known as 'Surrey enamels' from a mistaken attribution to a foundry there, but it has recently come to light that known makers in London were responsible. See C. Blair, 'Surrey' enamels reattributed' in the Journal of the Antique Metalware Society, vol. 13, 2005, (part 1) pp. 2-9; vol. 14 (part 2 with A. Patterson), pp. 10-21.
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