Lot Essay
For a shoe of the same form as the first present example in the Hessisches Landesmuseum, see Margit Bauer, Frankfurter Fayencen aus der Zeit des Barock (Frankfurt, 1988), p. 69.
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THE FIRST CIRCA 1720, THE SECOND PERHAPS LATE 17TH CENTURY, WITH AP/3 MARK
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TWO DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE MODELS OF SHOES
THE FIRST CIRCA 1720, THE SECOND PERHAPS LATE 17TH CENTURY, WITH AP/3 MARK
The first with pointed toe and high blue heel, painted with birds among flowers, the sides and buckle pierced (some flaking to heel, toe and sides, tongue lacking);
The second with curled over toe and painted in a pale-blue with a turreted building in a river-landscape and with a bird among trailing flowering branches, with a moulded buckle (slight flaking to buckle and upper rim)
6 in. (15.2 cm.) and 7¼ in. (18.3 cm.) long (2)
THE FIRST CIRCA 1720, THE SECOND PERHAPS LATE 17TH CENTURY, WITH AP/3 MARK
The first with pointed toe and high blue heel, painted with birds among flowers, the sides and buckle pierced (some flaking to heel, toe and sides, tongue lacking);
The second with curled over toe and painted in a pale-blue with a turreted building in a river-landscape and with a bird among trailing flowering branches, with a moulded buckle (slight flaking to buckle and upper rim)
6 in. (15.2 cm.) and 7¼ in. (18.3 cm.) long (2)
Special notice
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