Boot
ca. 1873 (made)
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One side of a pair of boots, most likely worn by women from the city of Yarkand (also known as Shache in Chinese) at festive occasions. It is made of leather lined with red and green woollen felt appliqué with elaborately embroidered floral motifs in a combination of silk and woollen threads on its upper and its cuff, with a blue-painted hemp layered at the top of the pitched cuff, a front vamp lined with magenta-dyed cotton/woollen ends, and edged with chagrin (or shagreen) between its upper and wooden sole and 4cm-high heel painted, and layered with leather at the bottom.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Leather, silk, wool, cotton, wood, embroidered |
| Brief description | Woman's boot, leather silk, embroidered, from Sache (Yarkand), China, ca. 1873 |
| Physical description | One side of a pair of boots, most likely worn by women from the city of Yarkand (also known as Shache in Chinese) at festive occasions. It is made of leather lined with red and green woollen felt appliqué with elaborately embroidered floral motifs in a combination of silk and woollen threads on its upper and its cuff, with a blue-painted hemp layered at the top of the pitched cuff, a front vamp lined with magenta-dyed cotton/woollen ends, and edged with chagrin (or shagreen) between its upper and wooden sole and 4cm-high heel painted, and layered with leather at the bottom. |
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| Gallery label | Woman's boots (each one of a pair)
Leather with silk embroidery and velvet trim.
From Yarkand; 19th century.
Collected by Sir Douglas Forsyth, and given by him in 1875.
These highly decorated, heeled boots were probably for special occasions. |
| Object history | Transferred from the India Museum in 1879. Part of an ethnological collection acquired by Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth from Yarkand (Shache in Chinese) in 1873-4. |
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| Other number | 13,071 - India Museum Slip Book |
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| Accession number | 2075(IS) |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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