- Titles Cup and Saucer (Descriptive)
- Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
- Medium stoneware (black basalt) with encaustic decoration
- Dimensions Cup: 1 3/4 × 3 3/4 × 3 in. (4.4 × 9.5 × 7.6 cm) Saucer: 1 1/4 × 4 7/8 in. (3.2 × 12.4 cm)
- Credit Line Gift of Dwight and Lucille Beeson, 1982.179a-b
- Work Type cup and saucer
- Classification Containers
- On View
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks The cup unmarked, in white enamel XXXIX2; the saucer has no visible mark, in white XXXIX1
- Inscription On the underside of the cup a sticker reading "18", inside the cup a Vurpillat collection sticker; on the underside of the sticker a Vurpillat collection sticker, 3 Beeson collection stickers, a sticker from the Paine Art Center exhibition in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and a Marshall Field sticker reading W.B. Ex. Grant -1775-
- Provenance Colonel Maurice Harold Grant (1872-1962), London, England. Sold Marshall Field and Col, Chicago, Illinois; purchased by Dr. Francis Jennings Vurpillat (1896-1966), South Bend, Indiana; purchased in 1967 by Dwight Beeson (1903-1985) and Lucille Stewart Beeson (1905-2001), Birmingham, Alabama; by gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 1982