Shoe buckle
These leather and steel buckles were probably for female shoes. Shoes during the eighteenth century were designed to fasten across the instep using either ribbons or buckles. These fitted between two pieces of fabric known as latchets, which crossed over at the front.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 59/1963/33
- Category
- Decorative Art
- Collection Class
- Clothing and accessories
- Material
- leathermetal
- Common Name
- shoe buckle
- Simple Name
- buckle
- Period Classification
- George II (1727-1760)
- Production Date
- c 1750
- Production Year Low
- 1750
- Production Year High
- 1760
