Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 11, 1788
Primary Source Reference:
Pennsylvania Packet (Philadelphia), 11 Dec 1788
Notes:
This may have been one of the shoes seen in the Museum about 1825 by Anne Newport Royall: "The shoe of a full grown Chinese lady, is about the size of a child's of two years old; They have a plate of iron inside, but are richly embroidered on the outside with gold and silver; they are of different shapes, but are all very large at the instep, owing probably to the foot being pressed close with iron." Anne Newport Royall, Sketches of the History, Life, and Manners, in the United States (New Haven, 1826), p. 216
Mary White Morris (1749-1827) presented to the Museum some objects brought back from China and the East Indies by her husband Robert Morris's (1735-1806) ship Alliance.
