- Titles Pair of Vases (Descriptive)
- Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
- Medium stoneware (black basalt) with encaustic decoration (painted Etruscan ware)
- Dimensions a) 12 × 10 3/4 × 8 1/4 in. (30.5 × 27.3 × 21 cm) b) 12 × 10 1/2 × 8 in. (30.5 × 26.7 × 20.3 cm)
- Credit Line Gift of Dwight and Lucille Beeson, 1982.172a-b
- Work Type vases
- Classification Containers
- On View
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks a) on the underside impressed WEDGWOOD V and in red enamel the number 4 b) on the underside impressed WEDGWOOD and in red the initials W.H., incised 943
- Inscription a) On the underside 5 Beeson collection stickers and inside the vase 2 Beeson collection stickers b) On the underside 5 Beeson collection stickers and inside the vase 2 Beeson collection stickers
- Provenance Dr. Harold L. Klawans (1901-1968), Chicago, Illinois; 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 1982