Shoe Fashion: Heel Sets

Rare ceremonial pieces that this pair of shoe heel ornaments cut from a carved pompon sheet, second half of the 18th century. This heel called "Louis XV heel" endures until the end of the Old Regime, its characteristic shape of the time includes a very high heel (11 cm) with a significant concave profile due to the very accentuated overhang; the verticality of the heel being almost in the middle of the arch of the foot. Certainly not very comfortable but whatever, it gives all the grandeur sought after by the nobility as much in men as in women. These models are inspired by the Orient according to the fashion at that time and decorate the shoe like a jewel. They are engraved with a seedling of five-pointed stars in a guilloche grid. The inner edges and the base have an interlacing frieze also engraved. This work certainly comes from a Parisian workshop. The goldsmiths Turgot and Daumy were the first to receive the agreement of a royal privilege in the manufacture of the pomponne, hitherto prohibited. Barely visible micro-scratches on the whole quite negligible, beautiful shine of the metal. Note: a great find for amateurs. Price nonnegotiable. Free delivery for metropolitan France.