Scarab Beetle?? design button/pendant

[HeatherM]

Found this today on a late 1700’s farm. At first I thought it looked like a sideways beetle but now I’m not so sure. He seems to have lots of antennas/swirls but they are hard to see towards the left side where his head should be. It doesn’t look like the raised area is partly missing but maybe it is. Looks like there was originally a shank on the back and then was turned into a pendant, maybe? The jump ring was off but in the hole. I attached it back on.
I don’t see any writing on the back. If it’s not a beetle, what in the world would the design be?

 

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[fyrffytr1]

The third picture just looks correctly oriented to me.Like a bowl or pot with flowers. It may have been a button that broke and the owner made a pendant out of it.

 

[freeman]

This is it in negative which brings out the details and oriented the way it would hang as a pendant. It just looks like an abstract design only.

 

[DCMatt]

Looks like a jellyfish to me...

 

[erfranks]

I agree a Button First and then pendant.

 

[Red-Coat]

I'm seeing something floral and in the territory of art nouveau. Something along the lines of this button:

 

[ARC]

Rosette turned pendant. IMO.

 

[HeatherM]

I thought it looked sideways as well but you'd think if they went through the trouble to make it a pendant they'd want it hanging right side up.

 

[DCMatt]

I'm seeing something floral and in the territory of art nouveau. Something along the lines of this button:

Or a girl with flowers around her bonnet?



Not an exact match. The silver piece is Unger Bros. Early 1900's.

The girl/woman head buttons seems to have been a popular motif.

 

[HeatherM]

Being a rosette first actually makes sense as it doesn't exactly look like shank was broken off but looks like the pokey things of a rosette. haha

 

[HeatherM]

DCMatt, you might be on to something! I'll be googling jellyfish and women with bonnets buttons/rosettes tonight!

 

[yaxthri]

I say DCMatt, good eye. The first pic in the first pair of your last post is the correct orientation, hole on top, girl looking to the left with hair lock fluttering around her face!

 

[Alaskan Distractions]

I’ve got a metal piece that is very similar, I think! On the one side, it looks like a less corroded version of yours...but there is absolutely nothing on the other side of mine! Maybe these pictures will help in an ID! I found mine on a beach used as a dump from the early to mid 1900s