- Titles Sphinx Candleholder (Descriptive)
- Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
- Medium red stoneware with silver luster decoration
- Dimensions 10 1/4 × 7 7/8 × 4 1/8 in. (26 × 20 × 10.5 cm)
- Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight M. Beeson, 1980.121
- Work Type candleholder
- Classification Furnishings and Equipment
- On View
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks On the underside faintly impressed WEDGWOOD
- Inscription On the underside a Beeson collection sticker and a Beeson loan sticker, also two round stickers reading "89" and "W"
- Provenance Dealer Fred Tongue, Santa Monica, California; purchased in 1966 by Dwight Beeson (1903-1985) and Lucille Stewart Beeson (1905-2001), Birmingham, Alabama; by gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 1980