Brooch

Wedgwood

About 1970

  • Titles Brooch (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china and metal
  • Dimensions 2 x 2 3/8 x 1 1/8 in. (5.1 x 6 x 2.9 cm)
  • 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.838.2010
  • Work Type jewelry
  • Classification Jewelry

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The rectangular frame with pierced foliate motifs and scrolling foliage at the finial. The lithophane with a Rhenish church.