Cooking Pot with Cover

Wedgwood

  • Titles Cooking Pot with Cover (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware and tin-plated steel
  • Dimensions pot: 4 3/4 x 8 x 3 3/8 in. (12.1 x 20.3 x 8.6 cm) cover: 1 1/2 x 3 1/8 in. Diam. (3.8 x 7.9 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.891.2008a-b
  • Work Type pot with cover
  • Classification Containers

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