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A pair of English delftware models of shoes, circa 1725 image 1
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Lot 84

A pair of English delftware models of shoes, circa 1725

31 January 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A pair of English delftware models of shoes, circa 1725

Probably London, with blue high heels and pointed toes, rectangular buckles applied below the rectangular tongues, painted in iron red and blue with trailing flowers, bands of cross-hatching running from the buckles to the toes to simulate braid, 11.1cm high (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Sotheby's sale 8 July 2008, lot 122
Benjamin F. Edwards III, Christie's sale 26 January 2010, lot 360

English delftware shoes were intended to bestow good luck on the owner, their form and decoration following changing fashions from the 1680s into the third quarter of the 18th century. Many are dated or initialled and most are painted only in blue, coloured examples being much rarer. A related polychrome pair with similar cross-hatched bands is illustrated by Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware (2000), fig.D363 and a range of dated shoes by Lipski and Archer, Dated English Delftware (1984), p.409-415.

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