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Start Over Object name Slippers Collector Ilse Martin Fang Donor Ilse Martin Fang
Hearst Museum object titled Slippers, accession number 9-21292a,b, described as Pair of silk-covered paper slippers. Red rayon uppers edged with sapphire blue strips of rayon on three top halves, cobalt blue on the fourth (“This difference of the fourth upper edge is analogous to the different pattern of the fourth side lining of [9-21293]”, donor’s comment). Heel seams covered with pointed strips of gold paper; front seams overcast with hunter green silk thread in a long stitch. Paper body of uppers has a diagonal pattern of squares with cross, imitating a cloth lining. Cardboard sole covered with red paper above, white cloth below, loosely stitched to uppers with red thread. Overall length: 7.5 cm; width at heel: 2.2 cm. The two slippers are tacked together.
Hearst Museum object titled Slippers, accession number 9-21289a,b, described as Manchu women’s platform (“flower pot”) slippers. Off-white damask uppers in two zones: embroidered cracked-ice pattern with flowers and buds above; a sober flowering bamboo pattern appliqued below. All decorations and piped edgings in black. Front seam raised with a cord covered with off-white damask and reinforced at the tip with a patch of the same material and decoration as the lower uppers. Seam at the heel covered with black broadcloth below and with off-white damask above. Upper lined with white cotton cloth. Black-piped intermediate sole, again covered with white cotton. Twine stitched to uppers. Whitened platform supports the intermediate sole, receded to a 4 cm long and 5 cm wide sten, increasing again to a 7.5 cm long and 8.7 cm side heel covered with a pad of quilted textile layers glued and nailed to the heel. Overall length of uppers: 24 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Slippers, accession number 9-21293a,b, described as Pair of lavender child’s slippers with tiger tip. Uppers damask overcast at upper edge with olive green cross stitches. Hunter green fringed tiger mask with “wang” sign (for king of the animals) stitched on forehead, appliquéd black and white eyes and white nose and hunter green long mustache and embroidered eyebrows. (Fide: Ilse Fang, 8/28/2001: tiger chases away evil spirits.) Ears purple satin. Small olive green crosses along upper edge of mask. Uppers lined with woodblock-printed white cotton, one side of four in a different pattern (analogous to upper edge of miniature paper slippers). Quilted cloth sole stitched to uppers with twine and covered with blue and white denim below, with black and mouse gray cloth above. Overall length: 12.5 cm; width at toes: 5.6 cm.

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