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SUMMARY:a-pair-of-rare-brocaded-silk-high-fashion-mules-palermo-italy-1700-
 1720 - Date de vente : 09/12/2025
DESCRIPTION:Nom du lots : A pair of rare brocaded silk high-fashion mules\,
  Palermo\, Italy\, 1700-1720\n\nA pair of rare brocaded silk high-fashion 
 mules\, Palermo\, Italy\, 1700-1720\n\nof pale blue silk brocaded with pin
 k\, white and green silk blossom and foliage\, silver threads\, with accen
 tuated pointed toes\, the upper edged in pale pink ribbons\, insoles of wh
 ite kid\, high brown leather heels with chiselled angles to curve\, the st
 raight soles with black leather inserted edgings\, length 23cm 9in (2)\n\n
 Provenance: These shoes are believed to have come from a noble Italian fam
 ily - Valguarenera.\n\nThey came into the possession of Franca Florio (187
 3-1950) a descendant of one of the richest\, noble families of Palermo. Sh
 e was a prominent and beautiful aristocrat who built up a collection in th
 e early 1900s of clothes\, shoes\, books and objects which dated from the 
 early 1600s to the 1920s\, which had been previously been owned by the ric
 hest families and rulers of Sicily. She married the entrepreneur and shipo
 wner Ignzio Florio Jnr - heir to the Florios’ vast economic empire in 18
 93. They were one of the most glamorous European couples of the time. Donn
 a Franca was considered by Jean Philippe Worth to be the best dressed and 
 most beautiful woman in Italy. Their residence\, where she kept her collec
 tion\, the Villa Igiea was designed by architect Ernesto Basile. Franca’
 s mother’s birth name was Francesa Paola Jacona della Motte dei baroni d
 i San Giuliano. This could mean that the shoes were kept in the family and
  were eventually passed to Franca for her private collection.\n\nShare thi
 s lot:
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