On View
On viewShoe Buckles
Artist
Samuel Bartlett
1752 - 1821
Date1785 - 1795
Terms
- Shoe Buckles
- Brass
- Silver
- Steel
- England
Dimensions5.08 × 5.08 × 2.54 cm (2 × 2 × 1 in.)
MarkingsMarked on back: "S.BARTLETT."
Credit LineGift of the Cummings Davis Society
Object number1994.9
DescriptionBrass, silver, steel. Square buckle with rounded corners, arched to fit over shoe. Brass with layer of silver on face. Two-part filed steel chape with two tines on arbor through center of buckle. Another pair is in the CM collection (S162a,b). Articles on 18th century (Colonial) jewelry on file, 1994.9.
Object number: PER1179.0001
Object number: PER1161
Object number: PER1179.0001A