Slippers


middle of the 18th century Silk, leather, fur, embroidery length 28 cm A pair of low laced silk slippers. On the inside lined with fur. Decorated with symmetrically placed embroidery with a larger flower in the middle. Edged with gilt decorative ribbon. The green silk laces have been preserved. By permission of the Bishop of Zagreb Juraj Posilovic, given to the National Museum from the Zagreb Cathedral Treasury by the 'keeper of the cathedral' Franjo Budicki in 1899. Restored in 1995 in the textile workshop of the Croatian Institute for Restoration.




HPM/PMH-019712