Supper Dish with Cover

Wedgwood

  • Titles Supper Dish with Cover (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions 5 1/4 x 12 x 5 1/2 in. (13.3 x 30.5 x 14 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.1169.2011a-b
  • Work Type dish with cover
  • Classification Containers

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