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.4329.2008
Provenance Manufactured by Wedgwood (est.1759), Etruria factory, Stoke-on-Trent, England, 1780-1790; probably commissioned by Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet (1717-1798) for Haldon Dairy, Haldon House, Devon, England. Harry Buten (1904-1971) and Nettie Buten (1902-1998), Merion, Pennsylvania, prior to their deaths [see note 1]; gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 2018
1. The spoon became part of the Buten Museum of Wedgwood (operated by Harry and Nettie Buten 1958-1988), Merion, Pennsylvania, and remained there until 1988 when it was placed on long-term loan with Nassau County Museums, Sands Point, Long Island, New York. In 2008, the collection came from Sands Point to the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, as a loan until accessioned in 2018.
![Small, flat, oval intaglio with the scene of the giant Tityos, son of Zeus, lying stretched out on and bound to a rock in Tartarus trying to fight off a vulture, who has returned to feed on his liver; below the scene is an illegible [Greek] inscription.](https://media.artsbma.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/11055649/SAN_VOL2BMA_Repositorydb_photod4738u28547384198062_01_p_o2-400x310.jpg "SAN_VOL2BMA_Repositorydb_photod4738u28547384198062_01_p_o2 | Birmingham Museum of Art")
