Object Number | 2003-38-8 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Tonkin | French Indochina |
Date Made | ca. 1900 |
Section | Asian |
Materials | Leather | Silk | Cotton |
Description | Lady's slipper with open back; upper of stitched blue silk lined with white cotton and edged at top with a band of black silk; two evenly spaced black cords, on vamp, extend from center top over toe to top of sole; a lighter cording circumvents shoe between upper and lower; sole of layered leather stitched together to rows of evenly spaced stitiching circumventing edge and one row of straight stitiching in center, from toe to heel; inner sole of white soft leather; edge of sole painted white. |
Length | 22.5 cm |
Width | 7 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1900.1.128 - Other Number | 13499 - Other Number | 21 - Other Number |
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