- Titles Tureen (Descriptive)
- Artist Charles-Louis-Auguste Spriman, French, active about 1775-1795
- Medium silver
- Dimensions 10 1/4 × 15 1/2 × 9 in. (26 × 39.4 × 22.9 cm)
- Credit Line Eugenia Woodward Hitt Collection, 1991.447a-b
- Work Type tureen with cover
- Classification Containers
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks Inside the cover and on the underside of the tureen: Paris charge mark of a crowned A for the years 1781/89; the warden’s mark of an R crowned for 1780/81; the maker’s mark for Spriman consisting of a crown, two grains, and the dove of the Holy Ghost; the discharge mark of the head Alexander for the years 1781/83
- Inscription None
- Provenance G. Rossi, Florence, Italy; dealer Ditta Sotirio Bulgari, Rome, Italy; purchased by Eugenia Woodward Hitt (1905-1990), New York, New York; by bequest to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 1991