Pair of Shoes

1915 - 1925

  • Titles Pair of Shoes (Descriptive)
  • Medium leather; cotton; wool
  • Dimensions Overall: 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Helen Benedict Byrd in honor of Martha Milner Benedict, 1986.1077.1-.2
  • Work Type shoes
  • Classification Costume

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Nelson creamer with black reliefs
Oval medallion of black basalt with the bas relief portrait bust of Roman Emperor Otho (32-69 AD) facing right, wearing laurel leaf crown, the name OTHO impressed below the truncation, self frame, pierced to hang.
Mug with a rounded cylindrical form that flares out at two points and tapers towards the base. The mug's exterior is speckled dark brown stoneware. Two areas near the handle appear almost smeared, like they were disturbed before the glaze was dry. There is also a blank area with few dark brown spots near the base o fthe mug. The exterior of the mug has thin horizontal, imprinted lines uniformly circling the form. The lip and interior are off-white toneware with dark-brown specks.
Bust of a female "Mongolian" in white porcelain, her head tilted slightly right, a smile on her lips, wearing her hair braided and covered with a frilled cap ornamented with three plumes and decorated at the edge with beads that match her necklace, her earrings diamond shaped, with a fur-lined, elaborately frogged coat left slightly open to reveal an unbuttoned robe underneath, cinched below the bust line with a diamond-buckled belt above an integral waisted octagonal base that is fluted and beaded above the foot rim; the back hollow.