DETAILS
- Artist
- Josiah Wedgwood
- Date
- 1700
- Medium
- Black basalt ware
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 2 7/8 × 2 1/4 in. (7.3 × 5.7 cm)
- Collection
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Culture
- British, Etruria, Staffordshire
- Credit line
- The Glenn Tilley Morse Collection, Bequest of Glenn Tilley Morse, 1950
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