Dimensions 3 7/8 x 6 5/8 x 6 in. (9.8 x 16.8 x 15.2 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.614.2011
Provenance Wedgwood (est. 1759), Stoke-on-Trent, England, about 1960-1962. Dealer Gered, London, England; purchased by Harry and Nettie Buten, Merion, Pennsylvania, in 1962; inherited by their daughter Beatrice Buten Magee, St. Paul, Minnesota [see note 1]; by gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, in 2011
1. The bowl was part of the Buten Museum of Wedgwood in Merion, Pennsylvania, from its acquisition until the museum closed in 1988 at which time the collection was placed on long-term loan with the Nassau County Museum Systems in Sands Point, Long Island, New York. The collection was removed to Birmingham, Alabama, in 2008.
