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.3096.2008a-b
Marks On the underside marked WEDGWOOD and BB with an elongated O.
Inscription Written in pencil on the underside of the cover "L/S black basalt vase & pedestal fluted relief vine Chippendale knife-box shape BB #1458. Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd Etruria England" with additional numbers in red crayon 168.
Provenance Commissioned by Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, Winnington Hall, Cheshire, United Kingdom about 1927; Collection of Winnington Hall 1930-prior 1959; acquired by Harry and Nettie Buten, Merion, Pennsylvania in 1959 [1] [2]; by gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2008
1. According to the catalog card that came with the object.
2. The piece was housed in the Buten Museum of Wedgwood in Merion, Pennsylvania from 1959 until 1988 at which time it was moved to the Nassau County Museums, Sands Point, Long Island, New York on long-term loan. The object was moved to the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, in 2008.
