The Don Englebreston Collection

Ornately Piped Royal-Iced Celebration Cake with Sugar Roses and Lattice Medallion

Ornately Piped Royal-Iced Celebration Cake with Sugar Roses and Lattice Medallion

A round cake finished in hard royal icing and decorated with piped and modelled sugarwork: a crescent of blush-pink roses with green leaves, a central medallion filled with precise diagonal lattice piping, and raised bead and shell borders around the edge, all set on a gold board dressed with a pierced paper doily. The skill on display belongs to the British sugarcraft tradition, in which iced cakes formed a staple competitive class in agricultural show home-industries sections. The frame is badly underexposed, darkening what was almost certainly ivory or white icing; no inscription appears anywhere on the cake. Project: 219970