Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase with funds provided by Catherine H. Collins, by exchange, AFI.24.2019
Provenance Staffordshire, England, about 1755. Thomas Murray Ragg, United Kingdom; sold Sotheby’s London, March 23, 1954 (Catalogue of Fine Old English Pottery: The T. Murray Ragg Collection), lot 109. Cyril Cook, United Kingdom, prior to 1964; sold Sotheby’s London, July 21, 1964 (The Collection of Cyril Cook), lot 5 (bearing collection label no. 242). Sir William John Herbert de Wette Mullens (1909-1975), London, prior to 1975; sold Sotheby’s London, February 22, 1977 (The Property of the late Sir William Mullens, D.S.O, T.D., T. L), lot 1. Harriet Carlton Goldweitz, New York, prior to 2006; sold Sotheby’s New York, January 20, 2006 (The Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collection), lot 96 (bearing collection label), lost passed. Bernard Starr (1929-2018), Glen Head, New York, prior to 2018; sold Sotheby’s New York, October 23, 2019 (Wedgwood & Beyond. English Ceramics from the Starr Collection), lot 47; purchased by the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, at said auction
