Button Corner

Each month, we feature a button from a different era, time and place. One that represents a particular genre through its materials, craftsmanship, style or subject matter. And where there is a story, it will be told.

Russian Enamel Portrait Button

As featured in Button Lines 191, an exquisite early 20th century portrait button of Her Serene Highness Princess Elizaveta Ksaverievna Vorontsova (nee Branitskaya) (1792-1880). Hand-painted and rendered on a large iridescent pearl with a lacquer finish. The border is a double twisted silver rope design with a silver mount, silver reverse and loop shank.  Artist inscription, Suvorov.

Featured Buttons are displayed chronologically in the gallery below: