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Fruit or Sweetmeat Basket
Hester Bateman, London, England
1788-1789
Titles
Fruit or Sweetmeat Basket (Descriptive)
Artist
Hester Bateman, British, 1709-1794; active 1761-1790
Medium
silver
Dimensions
5 × 6 5/8 × 5 in. (12.7 × 16.8 × 12.7 cm)
Credit Line
Bequest of Frances Oliver, 1972.302
Work Type
basket
Classification
Containers
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Signature
Inside the upper rim: 1) maker’s mark HB; 2) lion passant; 3) leopard’s head crowned; 4) king’s head; 5) date letter n for 1788/89
Marks
Inside the upper rim: 1) maker’s mark HB; 2) lion passant; 3) leopard’s head crowned; 4) king’s head; 5) date letter n for 1788/89
Inscription
None
Provenance
Frances C. Oliver (1883-1972), Birmingham, Alabama; by bequst to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 1972
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