Pair of ladies shoes (for Han Chinese)
The size and shape of these women's shoes make it immediately clear that they were made for a Han Chinese, someone who belonged to the original inhabitants of China. Tying off the feet of young girls was a custom that originated in the tenth century. The result was that the feet remained extremely small, but also completely fused. The small feet were in keeping with the beauty ideal of Chinese wom…
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Type of item
- Object Type: women's footwear
- women's footwear
Date
- 1807
Medium
- Material: mixed fibres
- mixed fibers
- Mixed fibres
Type of item
- Object Type: women's footwear
- women's footwear
Date
- 1807
Medium
- Material: mixed fibres
- mixed fibers
- Mixed fibres
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1807
- 1807/1807
Provenance
- 1883-01-01
- overdracht
Identifier
- RV-360-567
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/604279
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- hair (material)
- wax
- pekin
- ambergris
Year
- 1807
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-31T16:16:09.268Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T13:51:01.552Z
Keywords (provided by the community)
- men (male humans)
- girls
- a group of men
- group of girls
- Johan Nieuhof
- People's Republic of China
- Han Chinese people
- woman
- Chinese people
- man
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