Dish with Cover

Wedgwood

  • Titles Dish with Cover (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware and gilt
  • Dimensions bowl: 2 1/2 x 7 1/8 in. Diam. (6.4 x 18.1 cm) cover: 1 1/2 x 4 15/16 in. Diam. (3.8 x 12.5 cm)
  • 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.712.2012a-b
  • Work Type dish with cover
  • Classification Containers

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