Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, AFI.331.2009
Provenance Dealer Duncan Smith, London, England, prior to 1968; purchased by Harry Buten (1904-1971) and Nettie Buten (1902-1998), Merion, Pennsylvania, in 1968; by descent to their son Max Buten (born 1933), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [see note 1]; by gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2009
1. The foot bath was part of the Buten Museum of Wedgwood in Merion, Pennsylvania, until the museum closed in 1988 at which time the entire collection was transferred to the Nassau County Museums in Sands Point, Long Island, New York, where it resided until it was moved to the BMA in 2008.
