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Lot 144

An English delftware model of a shoe, circa 1720-30

15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,187.50 inc. premium

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An English delftware model of a shoe, circa 1720-30

With a pointed toe, high heel and a moulded rectangular buckle, painted in blue with a band of cross-hatching running down from buckle to toe, sprays of flowers to either side and at the back, the heel picked out in solid blue, 11.4cm high (a few typical chips, small section of tongue lacking to one side)

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A smaller but similarly shaped English delftware shoe was sold by Bonhams on 17 May 2017, lot 103 and a range of such shoes bearing dates in the first quarter of the 18th century is illustrated by Louis Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware (1984), pp.410-413

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