Doll's house food
Category
Dolls' houses and furnishings
Date
circa 1950 - circa 1960
Materials
Modelling material, card and paint.
Measurements
8 mm (height); 35 mm (width)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671193.3.5
Summary
A doll's house size plate of five small cakes, which include a piece of battenberg, a chocolate éclair, a jam Danish, a cake in the shape of an ice cream cone and an icing covered chocolate/fruit cake. The plate is white with blue decoration around the edge. The cakes are made of painted modelling material, while the plate is made of white card with the decoration painted on. The ice cream cone shaped cake has come loose from the plate. Part of a collection of food purchased from a craft shop in Crantock, Cornwall in the late 1950's, which forms part of a large collection of doll's house furniture, accessories and dolls.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Sandy Austin in April 2011.