Two "à la Buffon" buttons featuring insect and plant remains - Lot 277

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Two "à la Buffon" buttons featuring insect and plant remains - Lot 277
Two "à la Buffon" buttons featuring insect and plant remains under a curved glass, mounted and circled in metal, the loop fastener on the back. Diameter: 3.5 cm. Late 18th century. These buttons illustrate the fashion for naturalism that began with the successful publication of Histoire Naturelle by Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon.
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