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.3103.2008a-b
Marks On the underside of the black basalt plinth the Wedgwood & Bentley wafer mark
Inscription None
Provenance Harry Buten (1904-1971) and Nettie Buten (1902-1998), Merion, Pennsylvania; by descent to their children Max Buten (born 1932); Iris Buten Newman (born 1936); David Buten (born 1938) and Beatrice Buten Magee (born 1940) [see note 1]; by gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2008
1. The vase was housed at the Buten Museum of Wedgwood in Merion, Pennsylvania until 1988 when it was moved with the collection to the Nassau County Museums in Sands Point, Long Island, New York. In 2008, it was transferred to the Birmingham Museum of Art
