Card Stand

Wedgwood

  • Titles Card Stand (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium creamware
  • Dimensions 3 x 3 3/4 x 2 in. (7.6 x 9.5 x 5.1 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.658.2012.4
  • Work Type card stand
  • Classification Containers

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