Pair of Women’s Slippers
Date: circa 1827
Location: New England, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Artist: Unknown
Materials: Leather, silk, linen
Measurements: L: 9 1/4"
Pair of cream colored kid lady’s slippers. Thin leather sole with very slight wedge at heel. Narrow instep. Shoe uppers sewn in three parts, vamp and two sides. Seams at heel and each side. Lined with coarse linen, glazed. Cream silk pom pom at each toe. Said to have been worn by Mary Ann Lumbard at her wedding to John Moore in 1827.
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