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Chinese Manchu

Women's shoes, early 1900s

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

Chinese

Title

Women's shoes

Year

early 1900s

Medium

Silk damask weave with silk applque and embroidery; sole of leather and cotton cording

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • leather,
  • silk,
  • cotton

Techniques

  • appliqué (prefered spelling),
  • applique,
  • twill damask,
  • satin weave

Signature / Inscription / Marks

initial H and stamped Chinese character in red inside both shoes; ink inscription "Lord" (name of collector) in .a

Type

  • Fashion,
  • Costume Accessories

Credit

Gift of Phyllis L. Shelton

Object Number

1999.40.3

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Women's shoes with the accession number of 1999.40.3. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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