- Titles Nautilus Shell Compote (Descriptive)
- Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
- Medium earthenware (pearlware)
- Dimensions 8 3/4 × 10 3/4 × 6 1/4 in. (22.2 × 27.3 × 15.9 cm)
- Credit Line Gift of Dwight and Lucille Beeson, 1976.288
- Work Type compote
- Classification Containers
- On View
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks On the underside faintly impressed WEDGWOOD
- Inscription On the underside a Beeson collection sticker
- Provenance Dealer Fred Tongue, Santa Monica, California; purchased in 1966 by Dwight Beeson (1903-1985) and Lucille Stewart Beeson (1905-2001), Birmingham, Alabama; by gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 1976