Button
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Attributed to
content: Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796
label: For
content: Toussaint L'Ouverture
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Button depicting scene with four figures in a landscape with palm trees. At left, a light-skinned man at entrance of a hut, as black-skinned man and woman, dressed in Western style working clothes, converse with another woman who wears only a skirt, carrying a child on her back and a package on her head.
place: label: place depicted
content: Haiti
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of R. Keith Kane from the Estate of Mrs. Robert B. Noyes
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1949-94-1/18
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Button
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Gouache paint on ivory verre fixé (affixed to) glass, ivory (backing), gilt metal
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 1 x 3.7 cm (3/8 x 1 7/16 in.)