Trinket box

Wedgwood

1960

  • Titles Trinket box (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (jasperware)
  • Dimensions 1 3/4 × 3 9/16 × 1 3/16 in. (4.5 × 9 × 3 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.1913.2008a-b
  • Work Type box with cover
  • Classification Containers

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