- Titles Tea Bowl and Saucer (Descriptive)
- Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
- Medium stoneware (black basalt) with encaustic decoration
- Dimensions Cup: 1 3/4 × 2 3/4 in. (4.4 × 7 cm) Saucer: 1 1/4 × 4 3/8 in. (3.2 × 11.1 cm)
- Credit Line Gift of Dwight and Lucille Beeson, 1982.181a-b
- Work Type tea bowl and saucer
- Classification Containers
- On View
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks The cup unmarked; the saucer impressed Wedgwood 4
- Inscription On the underside of the cup a Vurpillat collection sticker and 2 Beeson collection stickers; on the underside of the saucer a Vurpillat collection sticker and 2 Beeson collection stickers
- Provenance Dr. Francis Jennings Vurpillat (1896-1966), South Bend, Indiana; purchased in 1967 by Dwight Beeson (1903-1985) and Lucille Stewart Beeson (1905-2001), Birmingham, Alabama; by gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 1982