Footed Dish

Wedgwood

  • Titles Footed Dish (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware
  • Dimensions 2 1/8 x 9 in. Diam. (5.4 x 22.9 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.3817.2008
  • Work Type dish
  • Classification Containers

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