A pair of Ottoman silver-mounted slippers, Turkey, 18th/19th century
Auction Closed
October 25, 04:59 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
the flat leather soles of hourglass shape, embroidered with a stylised pattern and terminating in pointed upturned tip covered with an openwork and engraved silver plaque decorated with foliate designs, the heels consolidated with strips of leather and small ropes
24.5cm.
This unusual pair of slippers combine a rather common shape of the eighteenth and nineteenth century Ottoman empire with an atypical addition of openwork silver plaques only recorded on a handful of other shoes. One is a pair of heeled slippers in the Sadberk Hanim Museum (inv. no.SHM 18123 - K.1257 a.b; published in L. Görünür, Shoes: from the Sadberk Hanım Museum Collection, Istanbul, 2014, cat. no.92, p.239). These reportedly relate to two other pairs in the German Leather Museum and a private collection in Istanbul (ibid, p.47).
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