Pair of Shoes

  • Titles Pair of Shoes (Descriptive)
  • Medium suede, beads
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ireland, AFI.19.1982.50a-b
  • Work Type shoes
  • Classification Costume

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Classically dressed female figure standing right.
Round blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Thrasybulus (440-388BC) facing right, He was an Athenian general and democratic leader. His public career began in 411 BC, when he frustrated oligarchic rising in Samos . Elected general by the troops, he effected the recall of Alcibiades, a former general accused of having profaned the hermae of Athens. and assisted him in several successful naval campaigns. In 404, when exiled by the Thirty , he retired to Thebes. In the following winter with 70 men, he seized Phyle, a hill fort on Mt. Parnes near Athens. His supporters soon grew so with 1,000 men, he repelled an attack by the oligarchs. In autumn 403, following skirmishes with a Spartan expedition under King Pausanias, a reconciliation was effected and democracy was restored.
Tall vase of deep blue jasper dip with white jasper relief decoration, resting on square plinth decorated with white anthemion motifs, the round foot with overlapping acanthus leaves and beading at the joint, the main body with applied white relief of on one side the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche, the other side left blank, the shoulder with a wide band of overlapping laurel leaves, with two scrolled handles and beading at the lip, the neck with a pair of thin white parallel bands.
Rectangular amethyst glass intaglio with "THE WORLD IS MY COUNTRY" surrounding a globe