Mule
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
Leather, Metal, Silk
Measurements
250 mm (H)
Place of origin
Greece
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1350442.1
Summary
Shoe; Mule - One of two blue velvet on canvas mules with a brown leather sole with a velvet sock and leather insole. It is a turnshoe. It is decorated with gold purl and silk cored silver thread in stylised flowers and leaves. They have a blue binding and gold braid - possibly a later addition. The sock is bound with heliotrope cotton. There is a small embroidered emblem on the sock in silk cored silver thread. Bourgeoise style.
Provenance
Charles Paget Wade Collection, Snowshill Manor