- Titles Charger (Descriptive)
- Artist Minton's pottery and porcelain factory, England, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, est.1793
- Medium creamware with enamel decoration
- Dimensions 1 3/4 x 19 1/4 in. Diam. (4.4 x 48.9 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.324.2009
- Work Type charger
- Classification Containers
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks On the underside impressed MINTON'S and with the arrow date mark for the year 1874 and additional impressed potters' marks
- Inscription None
- Provenance Purchased 1965 by Harry Buten (1904-1971) and Nettie Buten (1902-1998), Merion, Pennsylvania; by descent to their son Max Buten (born 1933), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [see note 1]; by gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2009
1. The charger was part of the Buten Museum of Wedgwood in Merion, Pennsylvania, until the museum was closed in 1988 and the entire collection was transferred on long-term loan to the Nassau County Museums in Sands Point, Long Island, New York, where it remained until moved to the BMA in 2008.