Limoges, France. Porcelain boot and table bell decorated with 22-karat gold leaf

Limoges, France. Three small porcelain vases decorated with 22-karat gold leaf and a beautiful royal blue glaze. Scène galante. Approximately 1970. Provenance: From a large French p...

Limoges, France. Two lidded porcelain jars decorated with 22-karat gold leaf and a beautiful royal blue glaze. Scène galante. Approximately 1970. Provenance: From a large French pri...

Herend table bell in hand-painted porcelain with flowers and gold decoration. 1980s. Measures: 10.5 x 7 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped.

Limoges, France. Two lidded porcelain boxes / jars decorated with 22-karat gold leaf and featuring a beautiful royal blue glaze with a Scène galante. Approximately 1970. Provenance: ...

Whimsical midcentury Majolica or glazed terra cotta umbrella or cane Stand in the form of Italian military boots complete with tassels and spurs.

- Unusual pair of Victorian-style brass boots - Beautifully cast - Shoes are steeped in custom, symbolic meaning and stories; Cinderella, Dorothy. Shoes were offered as gifts on special occasions in the 17th and 18th centuries often exchanged between lovers as a symbol of good luck in marriage. - These boots were either made as ornaments, gifts, or vases Originally, boots and shoes were made one at a time by hand, often by groups of shoemakers, or cobblers (also known as cordwainers). In the 18th century, dozens or even hundreds of masters, journeymen and apprentices (both men and women) would work together in a shop, dividing up the work into individual tasks. A customer could come into a shop, be individually measured, and return to pick up their new shoes in as little as a day. Everyone needed shoes, and the median price for a pair was about one day’s wages for an average journeyman. The shoemaking trade flourished in the 18th and early 19th centuries but began to be affected by industrialization in the later 19th century. Traditional handicraft shoemaking has now been largely superseded in volume of shoes produced by Industrial mass production of footwear, but not necessarily in quality, attention to detail, or craftsmanship. Today, most shoes are made on a volume basis, rather than a craft basis. A pair of "bespoke...

A Pair of Early Empire period French Rhyton-Form Cornucopia Biscuit and Gilt Porcelain Vases with Boar’s heads. These vases are modeled in the form of rhyton-style cornucopias, featu...

Pair of beautiful bisquit porcelain boots decorated with colorful flowers. French hand painted and gilt bisque porcelain miniature shoe with flowers in relief made by Villenauxe duri...