American Rococo Revival Walnut Sofa. The serpentine back centered by a rose and shell scrolled carved crest, the back joined to closed arms, with a serpentine apron and raised on cabriole legs terminating in casters, silk velvet upholstery.
Pair of Japanese shoes. Rawhide sole with thin worked leather sewn on. Painted white on sides. Canvas inner shoe, outer shoe covered with embroidered red silk. Blue and green pansies with brown stems, knots of brown and cream. Brown paper strips interwov
Letter dated 7/15/1938 from Alice Ewing to Mr. Bausman states that the shoes are valuable '...because it was the time when Japan was first opened to the occident by Commodore Perry.'
