Creamware cake stand2/12/2023 ![]() ![]() The game pie dishes had a function, as a casserole, with an liner and lid, where one could put a flour-less stew inside and still pretend there was a pastry on the table. It looked like pastry and was used also in game pie dishes. These loans include a rare stoneware (caneware) “Conceit” - a faux cake, complete with jasperware “icing.” It was created during the great flour storage during the Napoleonic Wars (circa 1790), when this innovative new Wedgwood clay body known as caneware was created. The Birmingham Museum of Art has loaned two key circa 1800 English Wedgwood cake-related masterpieces. ![]() The Depression glass cake stands are lovely hues of pink, green, blue and amber. ![]() Others were manufactured by prestigious American glass companies such as Fostoria in Ohio. They are beautiful when they fluoresce under a black light. There are pieces that are vaseline glass or uranium glass that are radioactive and make a Geiger counter click as its measuring the radiation. An enhancement to the exhibition of contemporary invitational and juried cake sculpture and cake stands is the addition of nearly two dozen late nineteenth century, early American pedestal glass cake stands.
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