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NATIONAL BUTTON BULLETIN

paintings on the buttons shown here, may have been copies of any one of the
nlany pictxres done by these- men. The general tone of ttre cotors, and the
subjects chosen for the paintings, are characteristic of the work of bottr men.
. Teniers, painted pictures not unlike button No. 3 showing a group drink-
ing, seated before the door iu a rustic i''. His painting i. titn"a in the
soft evening light, leaving high lights on the white tabte;loth. ihere is a
nisty atmosphere about the autumn tinted painting, rvhich contrasts well
with the reds, yellows and durl blues. The techniqu6 is right and-easy, and
th.e colors are gay and harmonious, and there is a golden -tone
to his work.
His painting shows the animated features of his characte"s, *rricr, seem to
have stepped out of comic opera; also delicate bala.ce ana eiqui.ite harmony
of color. Teniers was essentially ilre painter of pleasures oi the ale-house
and card-table.
Adriaen Brouwe. had a great respect for rural rife and in a very sirnple
spirit he pai'ted, manners and men both outside a'd inside of homes, as
they appeared to his view. His people are as r.eal as the scenes where he
places them. They are mild_joyous iompanio's; they dance, .-oae, o"int.
aud eat. He was of the rearistic school a'd was the most ieiso"il of the
contempo'arv manners-of all the Flemish painters of the 1?tir century. His
work gives more truthfnl pictures of life and is less theatricui it an Teniers.
His paintings of conternporary manners with light tones are coDtrasted
ge'tly with the warm shacles of the reds and golds. nrouwer shows the
real life of taverns and smoking roorns of Antwerp rut witn an-economy ot
detail to his landscapes and the backgrou'ds of his rittle ngures.--
Button No. 1 pictures a couple dancing j'st outside the kitchen door.
These specinens neasure one a'cl o'e-half inctres in diameter una tn" tna""
bu.ttons- were amollg the specimens shown during the- F;;;; prJgru*. At
other times they were exhibited in one of the show_cases.
S. A.
-L.
GOLD LEAF, IVORY, AND PEARL COMBINED IN I8TH
CENTURY BUTTONS
AD outstanding bit of rvorkmanship was noticeable in these two lgth
century buttons shown in Indiar-rapolis in the Kohn collection.- Cney are pic_
tured here in actual size and are paintings under glass ano trave-copper lims.

we will stalt at the foulldation of these charming pictures so that yorr
nray-better see the painstaliing efforts which went i't6 ine of these
tw0 buttons. "r"ti"g
An ivory plaque with three straight sides having a rounded top was
cenrented to a large round disc of abalone shell pearl. then the i,eniainder
of the pea.l was varnished and when tacky, gold leaf was ..r"}utrv tuio