Sample

Wedgwood

  • Titles Sample (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium calcined bone
  • 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.4431.2008
  • Work Type sample
  • Classification Materials

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