Lot 52
A PAIR OF OTTOMAN-GREEK SILVER-MOUNTED SLIPPERS
TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY
Auction: 09 December 2026 from 14:00 GMT
Description
each with rounded-pointed toe, lined with red silk, mounted with silver-openwork, the decoration consisting of a floral medallion with a pair of large facing birds above with interlinking vegetal and floral motifs in between
Dimensions
24.5cm long
Footnote
Ottoman slippers mounted in silver are quite rare and would have been reserved for the Ottoman elite. A pair of heeled slippers is in the Sadberk Hanim Museum (inv. no.SHM 18123 - K.1257 a.b; published in L. Görünür, Shoes: from the Sadberk Hanım Museum Collection, Istanbul, 2014, cat. no.92, p.239). These reportedly relate to two other pairs in the German Leather Museum and a private collection in Istanbul (ibid, p.47). For a comparable pair that sold at Sotheby's, see, Arts of the Islamic World and India, 25 October 2023, lot 240.