- Titles Creamer (Descriptive)
- Artist Hester Bateman, British, 1709-1794; active 1761-1790
- Medium silver
- Dimensions 4 5/8 × 4 1/8 × 2 3/8 in. (11.7 × 10.5 × 6 cm)
- Credit Line Bequest of Frances Oliver, 1972.304
- Work Type creamer
- Classification Containers
- Signature On the outer upper body: 1) maker’s mark HB; 2) lion passant; 3) leopard’s head crowned; 4) date letter b for 1777/78
- Marks On the outer upper body: 1) maker’s mark HB; 2) lion passant; 3) leopard’s head crowned; 4) date letter b for 1777/78
- Inscription In a reserve under the spout the initials: WMA
- Provenance Frances C. Oliver (1883-1972), Birmingham, Alabama; by bequst to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 1972