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.3100.2008a-c
Marks Applied on the underside of the basalt base around the bolt the Wedgwood & Bentley Etruria wafer mark
Inscription None
Provenance Manufactured by Wedgwood (est. 1759), Etruria factory, Stoke-on-Trent, England. Harry Buten (1904-1971) and Nettie Buten (1902-1998), Merion, Pennsylvania, in 1945; gift to their son David Buten in 1971 [see note 1]; gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, in 2008
1. The covered cup was placed in the Buten Museum of Wedgwood (operated 1958-1988), although it was given by Nettie Buten to her son David in 1971 (per the catalog card that came with the collection). It was removed to Nassau County Museums, Sands Point, Long Island, New York, as a long-term loan in 1988. The collection was transferred to the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, in 2008.
