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A square button worked into a pyramid form, this small object brings Spratling's signature first-period geometry down to button scale. The pyramid rises from a square base, so the piece is a complete architectural shape in miniature, modeling light across its four faces.
The pyramid was one of the pure forms Spratling worked across his early production, from cuffs to small fittings. Reduced to a button, it shows the workshop applying the same reductive geometric sensibility to its smallest objects.
With only the form and its period recorded, the button is best understood as a compact statement of Spratling's first-period geometry, the kind of small piece that comes to market only occasionally.
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