A Victorian Scottish silver-gilt freedom casket

A Victorian Scottish silver-gilt freedom casket,

by Muirhead & Arthur, Glasgow 1872,

rectangular form, decorated in the Cellini manner, with masks and foliate scroll decoration with thistles, the centre with the arms of Glasgow within an oval cartouche, the interior with a wax seal with the Glasgow arms in a circular silver box and with an illuminated Freedom of the City and Royal Burgh of Glasgow to the Right Honourable Robert Lowe, Chancellor of Her Majesty's Exchequer, in a fitted case, length 20.5cm, approx. weight 32.5oz.

Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, (4 December 1811 - 27 July 1892), held office under William Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1868 and 1873 and as Home Secretary between 1873 and 1874.