Cake Plate, "The Lobster and Her Mother", 1890

Item — Box: CFC Tableware Box 10

Identifier: CFC2019.0028.1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.

From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can imagine here. Please explore all that is to offer here in my fables Catalogue of Objects.

This is the largest online catalog of fable related objects on the internet. Many are from Aesop's Fables but you will find La Fontaine, Velazquez and Krylov also represented in this collection.

Dates

1890

Extent

.75 Linear Feet : A cream-colored cake serving plate 9¼" in diameter with a 6½" blue-and-white circular design at its center presenting "The Lobster and her Mother." 5½" high. The bottom of the dish has the "Brown, Westhead, Moore and Company Fables" logo and two other marks: either "6" or "9" and a red and blue mark. ; 9¼" in diameter and 5½" high

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

A frog looks on as the mother supposedly shows her child how to walk straight. I am not sure what this fable might have to do with the serving of cake! Over half of the design on the top surface of this serving plate is open space, pond, and reeds. Around the base are two designs, apparently independent of each other: two birds on a branch and a rabbit.