Button, spherical silver-gilt, Gyberg, Lund, 1791-1814
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1791-1814
In Sweden, as throughout most of Europe in the 19th century, silver buttons made to wear with traditional costume were mainly worn by men. Where buttons were part of women's traditional costume, they tended to be larger and even more extravagant than those worn by men. This button is a woman's button.
Its shape and function both date back to the Middle Ages, when buttons like this were worn as decoration on the sleeves and shoulders of formal dress. Hollow spherical silver-gilt button, covered all over with rings of twisted wire and granules, looking rather like a mine.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Silver-gilt with applied filigree
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 28 mm; length: 33 mm
Technical characteristics
- Maker recorded
- Gyberg
- Place recorded
- Lund, Torna
Design
- Marks and inscriptions
- 'I G' in rectangular frame.
Identification
- Source note
- Transcribed from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London collection record for this single object (sentences kept verbatim apart from removed sale or rarity wording); how far it represents a wider collectible type has not been independently verified.
- Candidate id
- vam-O296105
- Museum object name
- Button
- Holding institution
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Museum object number
- 461A-1886
- Museum system number
- O296105
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Research required: confirm the wider type, maker and dating against a specialist reference; this entry documents one recorded example.