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.117.2018
Marks In underglaze blue on the underside, the Copeland & Garret printed factory mark with a pair of branches tied with a ribbon, a crown above, and the name COPELAND AND GARRETT inside.
Inscription None
Provenance Copeland & Garrett (in partnership 1833-1847), Stoke-on-Trent, England, 1833-1847. Harry and Nettie Buten, Merion, Pennsylvania, prior to 1988 [see note 1]; by descent to their son David Buten, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; by gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, in 2018
1. The chamber pot was part of the Buten Museum of Wedgwood in Merion, Pennsylvania until the museum was closed and the entire collection was sent on long-term loan to the Nassau County Museums at Sands Point, Long Island, New York, in 1988. It remained there until transferred to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2008.
