- Titles Fruit or Sweetmeat Basket (Descriptive)
- Artist Hester Bateman, British, 1709-1794; active 1761-1790
- Medium silver
- Dimensions 5 1/4 × 6 1/2 × 5 1/8 in. (13.3 × 16.5 × 13 cm)
- Credit Line Bequest of Frances Oliver, 1972.301
- Work Type basket
- Classification Containers
- 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