Bedside Set

Wedgwood

  • Titles Bedside Set (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • 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.3301.2008.1-.4a-b
  • Work Type bedside set
  • Classification Containers

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