A PAIR OF ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME MODELS OF LADY'S SHOES
1710-1725, PROBABLY LAMBETH, LONDON
Details
A PAIR OF ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME MODELS OF LADY'S SHOES
1710-1725, PROBABLY LAMBETH, LONDON
Painted in iron-red, blue and green with trailing flowers and with chevron and zig-zag ornament, with tapering waisted blue high-heels, the tongue enclosed by a molded blue-edged buckle with iron-red beads
6 ¼ in. (15.9 cm.) long
Provenance
With Garry Atkins, London.
Literature
L.B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, vol. 2, p. 403, cat. no. D363.
For a shoe of similar form and with similar flower painting, dated 1718, see L. Lipski and M. Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p. 413, no. 1726.
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