Wedding Cake Figure
date: label: date made
content: 1940 - 1950
notes: label: Description
content: Bride and groom standing arm-in-arm on a tall, square pedestal base, the groom holding a derby or top hat. The groom has brown-black hair and the bride has yellow-blonde hair; both figures have ivory pink-skinned faces and hands, black dots for eyes and red-brown lips. She wears a plain, white, long-sleeved gown and holds a red and green bouquet in her left hand; no headpiece or veil. He sports a black tuxedo with cutaway coat and white bowtie. Hollow cast with hole on underside; back of base stamped incuse or incised "Germany".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
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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: 1992.0090.08
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0090.08
label: accession number
content: 1992.0090
objectType: label: Object Name
content: decoration, cake
label: Other Terms
content: Figure; Decoration
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: porcelain, bisque (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 2 5/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 6.6675 cm x 2.8575 cm