Marks On the underside: 1) maker's mark, partially illegible: EP (unidentified); 2) date letter m for 1767-1768; 3) lion passant; 4) leopard's head crowned.
On the inside of the cover: 1) maker's mark EP; 2) lion passant.
Inscription On the top engraved with an elaborate monogram.
Provenance Dealer N Bloom and Son Ltd, London, England; purchased by Catherine H. Collins (1922-1998), Birmingham, Alabama; by bequest to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art in 1998
