- Titles Covered Dish (Descriptive)
- Artist Hester Bateman, British, 1709-1794; active 1761-1790
- Medium silver and wood
- Dimensions 5 × 12 × 9 in. (12.7 × 30.5 × 22.9 cm)
- Credit Line Bequest of Frances Oliver, 1972.294a-b
- Work Type dish with cover
- Classification Containers
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks On underside of body: maker’s mark HB; lion passant; leopard’s head crowned; king’s head; date letter k for 1785/86, plus several numerical scratch marks On underside of cover: maker’s mark HB; lion passant; king’s head
- Inscription Engraved on the interior lip of the body and on one side of the cover, a demi-lion rampant holding a shield with pile and hatchings (unidentified).
- Provenance Frances Oliver (1883-1972), Birmingham, Alabama; by bequest to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 1972