- Titles Tea Canister (Descriptive)
- Artist Paul de Lamerie, British, born The Netherlands, 1688-1751; active 1712-1751
- Medium silver
- Dimensions 5 1/8 × 3 1/4 × 1 7/8 in. (13 × 8.3 × 4.8 cm)
- Credit Line Bequest of Frances Oliver, 1972.279
- Work Type tea canister
- Classification Containers
- On View
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks On the underside: the maker’s mark struck twice, LA with crown above and fleur de lis below
- Inscription Engraved on the underside the initials MBT; on one side of the body in a reserve the engraved initials FW (?) and on the other a coat-of-arms (unidentified)
- Provenance Frances C. Oliver (1883-1972), Birmingham, Alabama; by bequst to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 1972