Butter Dish with Cover and Insert

England

  • Titles Butter Dish with Cover and Insert (Descriptive)
  • Artist England
  • Medium jasperware
  • Dimensions 4 1/2 x 7 in. (11.4 x 17.8 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.947.2011a-c
  • Work Type butter dish with cover and insert
  • Classification Containers

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