£2,500 - £4,000
Italian micro-mosaic gold-mounted porphyry circular snuff-box and cover, probably Roman, early 19th century, the cover inset with Pliny's doves, within gold circular mount engraved with a wreath and mounted on grey-green porphyry base, 6.5 cm diam.
Provenance: Hicks Beach Estate. The majority of pieces in this collection originate from Williamstrip, Coln St Aldwyn, family seat from 1788 to 2008 and thereafter Mill House, Coln St Aldwyn. Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt, succeeded his father as 9th Baronet of Beverston in 1854. He became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1864 and served twice as Chancellor of the Exchequer, from 1885 to 1886 and again from 1895 to 1902. In 1906 he was raised to the peerage as Viscount St Aldwyn and in 1915 became the first Earl St Aldwyn.
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