Shoes

Museum number:
9-21288a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210921288a@2cb
Alternate number:
V4 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4697
Description:
Pair of child’s pink and black shoes with gray tassel. Pink patterned satin uppers over green, black, and white piping, an appliquéd black braid under the upper edge and a black cotton upper border in two tiers. Tip covered with heavy-duty cord-embroidered black satin. On either side, an endless knot of black braid, the loose end of which ends at the tip of the shoe in a split-stitched line and scroll. Under that, a black, embroidered chrysanthemum. Same near heel. Uppers lined with coarse, white cotton. Bottom sole wood, twine stitched. Overall length: 20.5 cm; length at bottom of sole: 16.4 cm; greatest width of sole: 5.6 cm; length of tassel: 5 cm.
Donor:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection place:
Peking, Beijing province, China
Verbatim coll. place:
China, first half of 20th century. Given to Ilse Fang in Peking by Erich Wolters, antique dealer.
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection date:
1943
Materials:
Cotton (textile), Satin, and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works) and Shoes (footwear)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Production date:
First half of 20th century
Accession date:
December 15, 1998
Context of use:
child’s shoes
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
Sole, length at bottom— length 16.4 centimeters, Overall length— length 20.5 centimeters, Sole, greatest width— width 5.6 centimeters, and Tassel— length 5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shoes, accession number 9-21288a,b, described as Pair of child’s pink and black shoes with gray tassel. Pink patterned satin uppers over green, black, and white piping, an appliquéd black braid under the upper edge and a black cotton upper border in two tiers. Tip covered with heavy-duty cord-embroidered black satin. On either side, an endless knot of black braid, the loose end of which ends at the tip of the shoe in a split-stitched line and scroll. Under that, a black, embroidered chrysanthemum. Same near heel. Uppers lined with coarse, white cotton. Bottom sole wood, twine stitched. Overall length: 20.5 cm; length at bottom of sole: 16.4 cm; greatest width of sole: 5.6 cm; length of tassel: 5 cm.

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