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.96.2018
Marks On bottom of base impressed WEDGWOOD / NW
Green sticker
Sticker: 4179/7-7-69/280
Inscription None
Provenance Wedgwood (est. 1759), Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom, 1930-1940. Purchased by Harry and Nettie Buten, Merion, Pennsylvania, in 1969 [see note 1]; by gift to their son David Buten and his wife Judith, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, prior to 1988 [see note 2]; by gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2018
1. See the object's card catalog (the dealer's name is illegible).
2. In 1988, the Buten Museum of Wedgwood was dismantled and the collection went on long-term loan to the Nassau County Museum System in Sands Point, Long Island, New York, where it resided until 2008.