Birmingham Commemorative Plate

England

About 1914

  • Titles Birmingham Commemorative Plate (Descriptive)
  • Artist England
  • Medium earthenware with underglaze blue printed decoration
  • Dimensions 3/4 × 9 in. Diam. (1.9 × 22.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Patrick Cather, Shoal Creek, Alabama, in honor of his great friend, Birmingham historian Jay Draper, AFI.81.2021
  • Work Type plate
  • Classification Containers

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