- Titles Hot Water Jug (Descriptive)
- Artist Hester Bateman, British, 1709-1794; active 1761-1790
- Medium silver and teakwood
- Dimensions 13 × 7 1/2 × 4 5/8 in. (33 × 19.1 × 11.7 cm)
- Credit Line Frances Oliver Collection (Bequest of Frances Oliver), 1972.320
- Work Type hot water jug
- Classification Containers
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks On body under lip: maker's mark HB; lion passant; leopard's head crowned; date letter k; on cover: HB and lion passant [See worksheet for script style]
- Inscription The erased (filled in with silver solder) initials JMB barely visible on front in cartouche
- Provenance Frances C. Oliver (1883-1972), Birmingham, Alabama; by bequst to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 1972