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.1252.2011
Provenance Manufactured by Wedgwood (est. 1759), Etruria factory, Stoke-on-Trent, England. Harry Buten (1904-1971) and Nettie Buten (1902-1998), Merion, Pennsylvania, in 1948; gift to their daughter Iris Buten Newman in 1971; gift from Iris Buten Newman to the Buten Museum of Wedgwood, Merion, Pennsylvania, in 1978 [see note 1]; gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, in 2011
1. The candleholder was placed with the Buten Museum of Wedgwood (operated 1958-1988), Merion, Pennsylvania, and remained there until the Buten collection was removed to Nassau County Museums, Sands Point, Long Island, New York, as a long-term loan in 1988. In 2008 the candleholder went to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, as a loan, until donation in 2011.
