Figural shoes are a delightful, long-collected art form, which especially flourished in Victorian times and after World War II. This ground breaking book, the first authoritative work on shoes made of porcelain and pottery, illustrates over 1,200 from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They are accompanied by hundreds of makers and carefully drawn scale sketches showing in-mold detail and relative dimensions. Identified manufacturers include Royal Worcester, Coalport, Spode, Meissen, Goss, Heubach, Conta and Boehme, von Schierholz, Bennington, Chelsea Keramic Art Works, Dedham, Hampshire, Morimura (Nippon), Schafer & Vater, Reinhold & Erdmann Schlegelmilch, and the most comprehensive group of Royal Bayreuth shoes ever published. There is also a large section on French faience. With a Price Guide in US Dollars.