Provenance
Fatma ben Houssein ben Ali, southern Anti Atlas Mountains, Morocco, before early/mid-1990s [this and the following according to personal communication from Ivo Grammet, May 24, 2002, in curatorial file, Arts of Africa]; by descent to her grandson, El Houssein, Morocco, early/mid-1990s; sold to Ivo Grammet, Essaouri, Morocco and Belgium, 1997; sold to the Art Institute, 2002.
Accession Number
159836
Medium
Leather; shoe stitched with cotton and silk; trimmed with wool, plain weave; embroidered with silk, cotton and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in satin and stem stitches; couching; silk and cotton wrapped cut tassels
Dimensions
a: 24.5 × 26.4 × 12 cm (9 5/8 × 10 3/8 × 4 3/4 in.); b: 24.4 × 25.5 × 11.9 cm (9 5/8 × 10 × 4 3/4 in.)
Classification
shoes - misc
Credit Line
Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson
