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Description:
Finely embroidered Manchu shoe, in red silk.
The shoe has a tapering platform sole and the sides of the shoe are embroidered with plants and squirrels in silk threads of many colours. There is a plain black silk band around the opening of the shoe.
| Object details | |
|---|---|
| Type of object: | Footwear |
| Type category: | Costume and jewellery |
| Material: | Silk |
| Width: | 7 cm |
| Height: | 11 cm |
| Depth: | 21 cm |
| Origin | |
| Style/Period: | Chinese |
| Date range: | 1644 - 1911 CE |
| Discovery site: | Chinese |
| Environment: | |
| Creator | |
| Technique: | |
| Personal name: | - |
| Role: | - |
| Culture: | Chinese |
| Record data | |
| Artworld id: | 00153 |
| Current accession number: | 1972.19.c |
| Former accession number: | - |
| Credit line: | - |
| Recorded by: | LW |
| Record date: | Mon, 2nd Sep 2002 |
| Copyright: | Copyright© by the Oriental Museum, University of Durham, Durham, 2002. All Rights reserved |