Bound foot
Category
Models
Date
Unknown
Materials
Plaster
Measurements
108 mm (H)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349442.1
Summary
Bound foot model - Part of a plaster model of a bound foot, a blue/black bandage of glazed cotton and a shoe with a green silk damask upper embroidered with floral designs in silks and sequins. It has a pink cotton damask flap at the back of the shoe and two leather soles. The shoe is lined with white glazed cotton. It is a turnshoe construction. The shoe fastens with 2 pink cotton loops. Probably made for the export market. Compare SNO.TC.742.
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade