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.3509.2008a-b
Provenance Wedgwood (est. 1759), Stoke-on-Trent, England, about 1820-1830. Harry and Nettie Buten, Merion, Pennsylvania, 1952; inherited by their children Max, David, Beatrice and Iris Buten, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [see note 1]; gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, in 2008
1. The teapot was part of the Buten Museum of Wedgwood in Merion, Pennsylvania, from 1958 until the museum closed in 1988 at which time the collection was placed on long-term loan with the Nassau County Museum Systems in Sands Point, Long Island, New York. The collection was removed to Birmingham, Alabama, in 2008.
