Celery Dishes

Wedgwood

  • Titles Celery Dishes (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware
  • Dimensions each: 2 x 10 x 7 in. (5.1 x 25.4 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.4119.2008.1-.3
  • Work Type dishes
  • Classification Containers

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