Wedding Cake Figure
Wedding Cake Figure
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- Description
- Fair-skinned bride with pale blonde hair, blue eyes, and heart-shaped red lips wearing a cap-sleeved white gown picked out in gold and embellished with gold-glittered and lace-edged white tulle over the bell-shaped skirt; a white lace headpiece with waist-length, white tulle veil is attached at top of her head and back of arms and waist. She stands with her left hand drawn up towards her face and holds two branches of white flowers inserted through a hole in her right hand. Hollow cast; red-printed, gold foil maker's label is adhered next to hole on underside. From a pair, 2007.0113.01A-B.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- decoration, cake
- Date made
- ca 1950 - 1960
- DELETE
- manufacturer
- Ucagco Inc.
- place made
- Japan
- Physical Description
- porcelain (overall material)
- enamel (physical features material)
- gold (dress details material)
- tulle, nylon (veil, skirt material)
- lace, nylon (headpiece; skirt hem material)
- glitter (skirt material)
- fabric (bouquet material)
- paper (bouquet stems material)
- wire (bouquet stems material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 7/8 in x 4 5/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 4.7625 cm x 11.7475 cm x 5.3975 cm
- ID Number
- 2007.0113.01A
- catalog number
- 2007.0113.01A
- accession number
- 2007.0113
- subject
- Weddings
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- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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