- Titles Water or Beer Jug (Descriptive)
- Artist Hester Bateman, British, 1709-1794; active 1761-1790
- Medium partially gilt silver
- Dimensions 9 5/8 × 8 × 5 3/8 in. (24.4 × 20.3 × 13.7 cm)
- Credit Line Bequest of Frances Oliver, 1972.315
- Work Type jug
- Classification Containers
- Signature On the side: maker's mark HB; lion passant; leopard's head crowned; king's head; date letter I for 1786/87
- Marks On the side: maker's mark HB; lion passant; leopard's head crowned; king's head; date letter I for 1786/87
- Inscription Below the spout engraved a crest with a bent arm holding a flag (not identified) above the initials RAB
- Provenance Frances Oliver (1883-1972), Birmingham, Alabama; by bequest to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 1972