Cover for Sugar

Wedgwood

  • Titles Cover for Sugar (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Rockingham glazed creamware
  • Dimensions 1 1/4 x 2 9/16 in. Diam. (3.2 x 6.5 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.4257.2008
  • Work Type cover
  • Classification Containers

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