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.356.2009
Marks Impressed on the underside WEDGWOOD
Stickers: Buten Museum of Wedgwood [and] small red Buten sticker
Tape label: 3788D / 11-10-66 / S450 [illegible]
Inscription None
Provenance Wedgwood (est. 1759), Stoke-on-Trent, England, about 1790. Harry and Nettie Buten, Merion, Pennsylvania, about 1966; inherited by their daughter Iris Buten Newman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [see note 1]; by gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, in 2009
1. The bowl was part of the Buten Museum of Wedgwood in Merion, Pennsylvania, from its acquisition 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.
