Wedding Cake Figure
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
label: date made
content: ca 1940 - 1960
notes: label: Description
content: Bride and groom standing arm-in-arm holding hands on an oblong platform base. Both figures have dark brown hair, ivory-skinned faces and hands, and red lips; the groom has brown eyes and the bride has blue eyes. She wears a pearlescent white, ruffle-necked, long-sleeved gown and tiara or headpiece embellished with floor-length netting for the veil; a pink and aqua-green bouquet rests inside her left arm. He sports a black tuxedo with cutaway coat and white bowtie. Copyright and manufacturer's name incised at back right on base.
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0090.02
label: accession number
content: 1992.0090
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0090.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: decoration, cake
label: Object Name
content: topper, cake, wedding
label: Other Terms
content: Figure; Decoration
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plaster, gypsum (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: netting (veil material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 4 3/8 in x 2 in; 3.4925 cm x 11.1125 cm x 5.08 cm