- Titles Shoe (Descriptive)
- Artist Shoe by, H & M Rayne, England, London, est. 1885@Heel by, Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
- Medium stoneware (jasperware) and leather
- Dimensions 5 1/2 x 9 x 2 7/8 in. (14 x 22.9 x 7.3 cm)
- Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, AFI.1067.2008
- Work Type heeled shoe
- Classification Costume
- Signature The interior of the shoe with the company's name RAYNE
- Marks None
- Inscription None
- Provenance Wedgwood (est. 1959), Stoke-on-Trent, England, 1958; Harry and Nettie Buten, Merion, Pennsylvania [1]; by descent to their children Max, David, Beatrice and Iris Buten; by gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2008
[1] According to Harry Buten as published in Buten, Harry M. “Wedgwood Oddities," in The Antiques Journal (December 1967), p. 12 (ill.), the shoe was exhibited by Sir John Wedgwood in his travels in Canada. He left it behind in his hotel and when it was forwarded to Josiah Wedgwood & Sons (Canada), Ltd. in Toronto, Sir John had already left for England, and it was then sent to the Buten Museum of Wedgwood. It remained in the Buten Museum of Wedgwood in Merion, Pennsylvania, until 1988 when the museum closed and the collection was transferred to Nassau County Museums in Sands Point, Long Island, New York. In 2008, the shoe was moved to the Birmingham Museum of Art.