First Day’s Vase will stay in the UK
Stoke-on-Trent City Council and the Friends of the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery have raised the £482,500 necessary to buy a Wedgwood First Day’s vase and prevent it from leaving the UK.
The black basalt encaustic-decorated First Day’s vase had been on loan to the museum for 35 years until it was withdrawn by its owner and sold at Christie’s Exceptional Sale in London in July 2016.