Ladies’ high-heeled aubergine shoes

This pair of ladies’ high-heeled aubergine embroidered shoes was made in Shanghai, China.The artefact was donated by Mr. Lim Tiong Guan, whose maternal grandparents moved from Qingmen, Taiwan to Singapore in the first half of the 20th century. His grandfather came to Singapore as a teenager and later owned a remittance business in Xiamen, China and a sugar-trading business in Singapore. As the family were quite affluent, they were able to own various imported goods.

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