Soup Plate

Wedgwood

  • Titles Soup Plate (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware
  • Dimensions 1 3/8 x 9 9/16 in. Diam. (3.5 x 24.3 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.592.2008
  • Work Type soup plate
  • Classification Containers

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