Port Barrel

Wedgwood

  • Titles Port Barrel (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware
  • Dimensions 12 3/4 x 10 x 8 in. (32.4 x 25.4 x 20.3 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.742.2011
  • Work Type barrel
  • Classification Containers

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