Sweetmeat Dishes

Wedgwood

  • Titles Sweetmeat Dishes (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware and gilding
  • Dimensions each: 1 1/2 x 3 1/8 x 2 1/8 in. (3.8 x 7.9 x 5.4 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.744.2010.1-.2
  • Work Type dishes
  • Classification Containers

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