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Shoe-shaped Garniture

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1840-1870

GUSN

GUSN-5544

Description

Woman's low heeled shoe; blue glaze decoration over white underglaze; woman's face painted at instep.

Details

Descriptive Terms

ornaments
earthenware
pottery (object genre)
underglazing
clay
Unidentified Ceramic
Shoe
Bric-a-brac

Associated Building

Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

Holland

Dimensions

2 1/4 x 1 1/2 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Ralph May

Accession Number

1971.850

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