- Titles Centerpiece (Descriptive)
- Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
- Medium lead-glazed earthenware (creamware)
- Dimensions 8 1/4 × 7 3/4 in. Diam. (21 × 19.7 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.3570.2008
- Work Type centerpiece
- Classification Containers
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks On the underside impressed WEDGWOOD
- Inscription None
- Provenance Manufactured by Wedgwood (est. 1759), Etruria factory, Stoke-on-Trent, England. Harry Buten (1904-1971) and Nettie Buten (1904-1998), Merion, Pennsylvania, in 1959 [see note 1]; by descent to their children [see note 2]; gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, in 2008
1. According to the catalog card that came with the collection. The piece was part of the collection at the Buten Museum of Wedgwood in Merion, Pennsylvania, and remained there until it was removed to the Nassau County Museums, Sands Point, Long Island, New York, in 1988, when the BMW closed, and placed on long-term loan. The collection was transferred to the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, in 2008
2. Max Buten; David Buten; Beatrice Buten Magee; and Iris Buten Newman. The collection technically belonged to the family when it was transferred to Nassau County and placed on long-term loan there.