Left over from her last studio-storefront on West 10th Street (closed 1952), a cigar box of Janeway buttons were found in Janeway’s apartment. As well a few buttons have been sold at auction recently.

A damaged button could have been repurposed, set as a brooch.

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(above) Janeway ceramic buttons. The figures are executed using sgraffito whereby the initial colored underglaze paint is scraped away to reveal the design as the white of the clay body.  Ceramics & Potterymaking for Everyone.1950

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Janeway’s line art depicting her satsuma-like buttons. Ceramics & Potterymaking for Everyone. 1950.

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(above) Left: Womens’ pages fashion alert about Big Buttons.1941.   Right: Janeway finishing surfaces of her ceramic buttons before firing and adding underglaze and sgraffito decoration. Ceramics & Potterymaking for Everyone.1950.