- Titles Commemorative Tea Service (Descriptive)
- Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759@Retailed by, W. H. Plummer & Co Ltd., New York, operated first half 20th century
- Medium earthenware (embossed creamware)
- Dimensions teapot: 5 5/8 × 8 3/4 × 6 1/8 in. (14.3 × 22.2 × 15.6 cm) sugar: 4 5/8 × 5 × 4 1/2 in. (11.7 × 12.7 × 11.4 cm) creamer: 2 7/8 × 5 1/4 × 3 3/4 in. (7.3 × 13.3 × 9.5 cm)
- Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Stephenson B. Andrews, AFI.99.2014.1-.3
- Work Type tea service
- Classification Containers
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks .1) On the bottom of the teapot impressed: WEDGWOOD and printed in blue the circular mark: WEDGWOOD / ETRURIA, ENGLAND / ISSUE LIMITED TO / 3000 OF WHICH / THIS IS 51 [and, around] COMMEMORATING FIRST VISIT OF BRITISH REIGNING SOVEREIGNS TO THESE UNITED STATES IN 1939... / MADE EXCLUSIVELY FOR W.H. PLUMMER & CO. LTD NEW YORK .2) On the bottom of the bowl impressed: WEDGWOOD and printed in blue the circular mark: WEDGWOOD / ETRURIA, ENGLAND / ISSUE LIMITED TO / 3000 OF WHICH / THIS IS 51 [and, around] COMMEMORATING FIRST VISIT OF BRITISH REIGNING SOVEREIGNS TO THESE UNITED STATES IN 1939... / MADE EXCLUSIVELY FOR W.H. PLUMMER & CO. LTD NEW YORK .3) On the bottom impressed: WEDGWOOD and printed in blue the circular mark: WEDGWOOD / ETRURIA, ENGLAND / ISSUE LIMITED TO / 3000 OF WHICH / THIS IS 51 [and, around] COMMEMORATING FIRST VISIT OF BRITISH REIGNING SOVEREIGNS TO THESE UNITED STATES IN 1939... / MADE EXCLUSIVELY FOR W.H. PLUMMER & CO. LTD NEW YORK
- Inscription See description and marks.
- Provenance Ex. coll. Stephenson B. Andrews, New York; by gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art