Coffee Pot with Cover

Wedgwood

  • Titles Coffee Pot with Cover (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions 8 1/4 x 8 x 3 1/4 in. (21 x 20.3 x 8.3 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.685.2011a-b
  • Work Type coffee pot with cover
  • Classification Containers

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