Soup Plates

Wedgwood

  • Titles Soup Plates (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium creamware
  • Dimensions 1 1/4 x 9 in. (3.2 x 22.9 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.4012.2008.1-.9
  • Work Type soup plates
  • Classification Containers

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