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.4331.2008
Marks On the underside impressed WEDGWOOD and with the three-letter date code UVW
Inscription None
Provenance Purchased in King's Road, London, UK, in 1962 by Harry Buten (1904-1971) and Nettie Buten (1902-1998), Merion, Pennsylvania [see note 1]; by descent to their children Max, David, Beatrice and Iris Buten, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; by gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2008
1. The centerpiece was housed at the Buten Museum of Wedgwood in Merion, Pennsylvania until 1988 when the museum was closed. From there it went to the Nassau County Museums in Sands Point, Long Island, New York, where it remained until it was transferred to the BMA in 2008.
