Scottish Pottery Pearlware Sponged Spirit Flasks Modeled in Form of Boots

English Pottery Vases decorated with Flowers and Leaves, Douton Lambeth, 1870s-80s The pottery mallet-shaped vases are hand painted with brown leaves and white flowers on a green ...

Mason's ironstone Japan pattern pair of vases, circa 1830-1840. The vases are decorated in an imari palette with scroll handles highlighted in tu...

Pair of large Paris Porcelain Botanical Vases, Mid-19th century. Each of the baluster form vases has a cylindrical neck and everted rim and is painted...

Staffordshire Pottery Pair of Cow and Calf Figure Spill Vases, Circa 1860-80 The charming large Victorian Staffordshire pottery figures have a large scale to them. They depict a pa...

Pair of beautiful bisquit porcelain boots decorated with colorful flowers. French hand painted and gilt bisque porcelain miniature shoe with flowers in relief made by Villenauxe duri...

Original Pair of 21st Century English Ceramic "Boots" Vases. 50cm x 30cm Perfect condition

Set of three very pretty antique and vintage sexy Cinderella glass shoe bottles. A boot, a pump and a slipper. It consists of a: -handblown in a mould Victorian 19th century Legras&Cie lady’s "button lace-up ankle boot with a piece of leg on a padded cushion" soap bottle...

- Unusual pair of Victorian-style brass boots - Beautifully cast - Shoes are steeped in custom, symbolic meaning and stories; Cinderella, Dorothy. Shoes were offered as gifts on special occasions in the 17th and 18th centuries often exchanged between lovers as a symbol of good luck in marriage. - These boots were either made as ornaments, gifts, or vases Originally, boots and shoes were made one at a time by hand, often by groups of shoemakers, or cobblers (also known as cordwainers). In the 18th century, dozens or even hundreds of masters, journeymen and apprentices (both men and women) would work together in a shop, dividing up the work into individual tasks. A customer could come into a shop, be individually measured, and return to pick up their new shoes in as little as a day. Everyone needed shoes, and the median price for a pair was about one day’s wages for an average journeyman. The shoemaking trade flourished in the 18th and early 19th centuries but began to be affected by industrialization in the later 19th century. Traditional handicraft shoemaking has now been largely superseded in volume of shoes produced by Industrial mass production of footwear, but not necessarily in quality, attention to detail, or craftsmanship. Today, most shoes are made on a volume basis, rather than a craft basis. A pair of "bespoke...