Wedding Cake Figure
Wedding Cake Figure
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- Description
- Fair-skinned groom with attenuated body, pale red hair and brows, black eyes, and a red dot for his lips standing with a black top hat held in his right hand and a yellow cane resting over his left arm. He wears a morning suit with buttoned, black cutaway coat, bowknot picked out in gold above a red-brown cravat or tie, and white pants striped with pairs of gold lines. 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 5 in x 1 1/2 in; 2.8575 cm x 12.7 cm x 3.81 cm
- ID Number
- 2007.0113.03B
- catalog number
- 2007.0113.03B
- accession number
- 2007.0113
- subject
- Weddings
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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