Signature Inside the basket, upper rim (almost illegible): 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 basket, upper rim (almost illegible): 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 In the center well engraved a lion’s head erased with tongue (crest of many different families)
Provenance Frances C. Oliver (1883-1972), Birmingham, Alabama; by bequst to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 1972