- Titles Simple Yet Perfect Teapot (Descriptive)
- Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
- Medium earthenware (creamware)
- Dimensions 6 × 6 1/2 × 4 in. (15.2 × 16.5 × 10.2 cm) upright
- 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.4332.2008a-b
- Work Type teapot with cover
- Classification Containers
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks On the underside impressed: WEDGWOOD / S. Y. P. / PATENT [and the three-letter date code] 3IJ [for 1907]
- Inscription None
- Provenance Manufactured by Wedgwood (est. 1759), Etruria factory, Stoke-on-Trent, England, 1907. Harry Buten (1904-1971) and Nettie Buten (1902-1998), Merion, Pennsylvania, 1962 [see note 1]; Gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 2018.
1. According to the Buten catalog card, Harry and Nettie Buten acquired the teapot in Brighton in 1962. Became part of the Buten Museum of Wedgwood (operated by Harry and Nettie Buten 1958-1988), Merion, Pennsylvania, and remained there until 1988 when it was placed on long-term loan with Nassau County Museums, Sands Point, Long Island, New York. In 2008, came from Sands Point to the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, as a loan until accessioned as part of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2018.