Textiles. Shoes/pumps. Silk taffeta, bound with ribbon; floss silk embroidery in French knots, long and short, satin and split stitches; tied with ribbon. Ground covered by a pattern of trailing and scrolling stems with leaves and flowers, carnation, rose, etc., so arranged that there is a carnation on each toe and a rose on each heel with a five petalled blue flower above it. The left shoe has a rose, the right a carnation at each side of the seam. Silk, length, whole, 7 in, height, back, 5.25 in, height, heel, 3 in, circa 1700-circa 1749. English.
