Portland Vase Copy

Wedgwood

About 1922

  • Titles Portland Vase Copy (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (jasperware)
  • Dimensions 10 1/4 × 8 × 8 in. (26 × 20.3 × 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.3478.2008
  • Work Type vase
  • Classification Containers

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