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 of five figures outside near a large house. From left: a seated man, wearing a pink shirt, playing a drum, a woman with only head visible standing behind another woman, wear white with pink stripes, who claps [to the music]. In the foreground, a lighter skinned woman wearing an open corset and skirt dances with a man who wears white clothing and a pink sash.
place: label: place depicted
content: Haiti
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1949-94-8
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 tin verre fixé, ivory (backing), glass, gilt metal
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 1 x 3.7 cm (3/8 x 1 7/16 in.)