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Embroidered Slipper Tops

1834

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Embroidered Slipper Tops

1834

Physical Qualities Silk ground, silk embroidery threads, 12 1/4 x 18 1/4 in. (31.1 x 46.4 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Gloria B. and Herbert M. Katzenberg, Baltimore
Object Number 2012.603
Two embroidered but uncut silk slipper forms worked in multiple hues of silk thread on a woven silk gauze (?) mat. The designs are based on various Chinese motifs of beetles, flowers in vase, cloud shapes, lotus, wan, etc. contained within lozenges shapes outlined in black. The multiple colors of silk include: tight and dark blue, lt. and dark coral or pink, light and dark green, black, white. Stitches appear to be almost exclusively satin stitch stitches, but reverse is inaccessible. The work is mounted and framed in a narrow black frame.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2012; Gloria Katzenberg, Baltimore, by purchase in the 1970s; Cora Ginsburg, NY

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