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.2933.2008
Marks Impressed on the underside: WEDGWOOD and with an illegible potter's mark
Inscription None
Provenance Wedgwood (est. 1759), Stoke-on-Trent, England, about 1790-1800. David and Charlotte Zeitlin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; acquired from the Zeitlins by Harry and Nettie Buten, Merion, Pennsylvania, in 1961 [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, Alabama, in 2008
1. According to the catalog card that came with the collection. The fish server was part of the Buten Museum of Wedgwood in Merion, Pennsylvania until the museum was closed and the entire collection was sent on long-term loan to the Nassau County Museums at Sands Point, Long Island, New York, in 1988. It remained there until transferred to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2008.
