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.685.2012
Signature Signed by the artist lower left corner: Emile Lessore
Marks None
Inscription On the reverse handwritten in red the number 48 and again the number 48 and a name [Lessore?]
Provenance Dealer Otto Wasserman, New York, New York; purchased by Harry Buten (1904-1971) and Nettie Buten (1902-1998), Merion, Pennsylvania, in 1964; by descent to their daughter Beatrice Buten Magee (born 1940), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [see note 1]; by gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2012
1. The plaque was housed at the Buten Museum of Wedgwood in Merion, Pennsylvania, until 1998 when it was placed on long-term loan at the Nassau County Museums in Sands Point, Long Island, New York. In 2008, the plaque was transferred along with the rest of the Buten Wedgwood collection to the Birmingham Museum of Art.
