Details
A PAIR OF ENGLISH DELFT DOCUMENTARY SHOES
DATED 1695, PROBABLY LONDON
Each court shoe with a bow at the instep, the tongue inscribed 16 AB 95, painted in blue on a pale blue ground with birds on flowering branches (one tongue a restored replacement)--4 7/8in. (12.5cm.) long (2)
DATED 1695, PROBABLY LONDON
Each court shoe with a bow at the instep, the tongue inscribed 16 AB 95, painted in blue on a pale blue ground with birds on flowering branches (one tongue a restored replacement)--4 7/8in. (12.5cm.) long (2)
Provenance
Frances.L. Dickson, Sotheby & Co., London, May 21, 1954, lot 13 and November 16, 1954, lot 102
Louis L. Lipski, no. 733
John Phillip Kassebaum, Sotheby's London, October 1, 1991, lot 10
Louis L. Lipski, no. 733
John Phillip Kassebaum, Sotheby's London, October 1, 1991, lot 10
Literature
Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, Tin-glazed Earthenware 1600-1800, London, 1984, nos. 1711, 1711A