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1893.79.6.1-2

Lady's patterned silk shoes

1893.79.6.1-2

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Collection type
Object
Description
Lady's patterned silk shoes
Long description
with a very high heel covered in white silk. The uppers are cut with a small pointed tongue and the edge is decorated with a kind of lace edging. There are two padded round decorations on the toe with lace edging and a small ribbon rosette between them. The uppers are lined round the heel to the sides with chamois leather and the toe in cotton
Cultural groups
English
Person
Maker Unknown Maker
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Emma Swann
Date / Period
Date made: 1650-1700?, uncertain
Date collected
By 1893
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1893
Materials and processes
Material Silk Textile Animal, Material Ribbon Textile, Material Goat Skin Animal, Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Process Embroidered, Process Woven
Dimensions
Length 250 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1893.79.6.1-2
Research and responses

Please note that according to the Donor Index cards at the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities, this object [Ashm Number 1893.205] was donated by Miss Emma Swann of Walton Manor, Woodstock Road, Oxford. She donated objects to the Ashmolean in 1889, 1893, and 1894. She is listed as the neice of Professor Westwood. It is probable that 'Professor Westwood' refers to Professor John Obadiah Westwood, the 1st Hope professor of Zoology and Fellow of Magdalen. [L.Ph 26/3/2004]

This could be the Miss Swann of 141 Woodstock Road [Oxford] who was a member of the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire from October 1894 or the Miss E.L. Swann of the same address [and therefore possibly the same person] who joined the same society in March 1898. Westwood was a member of the same society [AP 31/10/2002]

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