Plate

Staffordshire

About 1760

  • Titles Plate (Descriptive)
  • Artist Staffordshire, England
  • Medium salt-glazed stoneware
  • Dimensions 1 1/4 × 10 1/4 in. Diam. (3.2 × 26 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Catherine H. Collins Collection, AFI.211.1998
  • Work Type plate
  • Classification Containers

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