Chocolate Jug with Cover

England

  • Titles Chocolate Jug with Cover (Descriptive)
  • Artist England
  • Medium pearlware
  • 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.639.2008a-b
  • Work Type jug with cover
  • Classification Containers

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