Object class: Shoes (footwear) / Collection place: Northern China / Materials: Suede - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Shoes, accession number 9-21285a,b, described as Pair of Manchu woman’s platform (“flower pot”) shoes. Black satin upper sides, delicately embroidered with moths at tip. Upper edge black suede with piped edges; the lower, scalloped. Suede coarsley embroidered with white, pink, green-shaded twisted silk thread in a narcissus (?) pattern. Front and back tipes piped with donkey leather, secured in front with strong black belting weave; in back suede covered. A white and green strip of cloth separates the uppers from the platform. Its wood core covered above and below by cloth soles: the upper one padded and covered with lavendar piped white cotton; the lower one made of twine-quilter layers of cotton. Platform whitened. Overall Length: 24 cm. bottom of platform: 8 cm; top 21 cm; height of platform: 4 cm.

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.