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.1280.2008
Marks On the underside printed in gray WEDGWOOD / N.W.
Inscription On the underside a paper label that reads WEDGWOOD (printed in blue) and handwritten in black VASE 7 1/4" HIGH / 4870 SHAPE / N.W. WARE & GLAZES
Buten scotch tape label 2300A/190/2-24-62/335/S25
Provenance Wedgwood (est. 1759), Stoke-on-Trent, England, 1954-1962; purchased by Harry and Nettie Buten, Merion, Pennsylvania, in 1962; inherited by their children Max, David, Beatrice and Iris Buten, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [see note 1]; gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, in 2008
1. The vase 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.
