Cake Plate, Opera Pattern (Annie Pixley, Maud Granger)

Datec. 1880

DimensionsOverall: 17.5 x 25.7 cm

Credit LineGift of Annabel Sells, London, Ontario, 2004

Object number2004.036.001

Label TextThis cake plate is one piece from the "Opera" or "Actress" pattern of pressed glass. Made by Adams and Company around 1880, it features actresses Annie Pixley and Maud Granger. Annie Pixley has ties to London. A popular stage actress of the 1870s, Pixley was celebrated for her role as M'Liss in the play "M'Liss, Child of the Sierras" and as Josephine in Gilbert and Sullivan’s "HMS Pinafore." Londoners flocked to the Grand Opera House to see her perform. Pixley also came to the London area with her husband, actor Robert Fulford, for rest and relaxation. When their 12-year-old son died in 1886, he was buried at Woodland Cemetery. When Pixley died in 1893, her husband placed her ashes with their son. He later built a the Fulford - Pixley Mausoleum at the cemetery.

NameStand, Cake