Wedding Cake Figure
Wedding Cake Figure
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- Description
- Fair-skinned bride with attenuated body, pale blonde hair and brows, black eyes, and a red dot for her lips standing and holding a red, yellow and green bouquet in light blue wrapping against her left arm. She wears a long-sleeved white gown picked out in gold at the neck, across bodice and in the front folds of skirt along with white gloves and a red-brown, shoulder-length headpiece or mantle. Hollow cast; underside is stamped next to hole "JAPAN" in black. From a pair, 2007.0113.03A-B.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- decoration, cake
- Date made
- ca 1930 - 1940
- maker
- unknown
- place made
- Japan
- Physical Description
- porcelain (overall material)
- enamel (decoration material)
- gold (decoration material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/8 in x 4 3/4 in x 1 7/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 12.065 cm x 4.7625 cm
- ID Number
- 2007.0113.03A
- catalog number
- 2007.0113.03A
- 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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