SLIPPER
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
Slipper said to have been used to carry salt in pocket. Typical oriental slipper shape with pointed toe, decorated on sides, cover, toe and heel with scrolls in niello. Around heel is inscription.
- Object name:
- SLIPPER
- Made from:
- Silver -- niello
- Made in:
- Caucasus, Russia
- Date made:
- 19th c.
- Size:
- 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.175
- Class:
- NIELLO
- Signature marks:
- MARK; INSCRIPTION Shield, CT, 84; Caucasus in Cyrillic
- Credit line:
- Gift of Madame Augusto Rosso, 1966