freedom box / Henry Grattan, Dublin Brewers, 1792

Freedom box. Dublin, 1792; mark of Aeneas Ryan; gold (22 ct), lid engraved with the arms, crest, motto and heraldic supporters of the Corporation of Brewers, the base inscribed 'the brewers of the City of Dublin present the freedom of their corporation to the Rt. Hon'ble Hen'y Grattan in Testimony of their grateful sense of his unremitting exertions in Parliament for the General Advantage of his country & particularly for his endeavours to promote an extention of the brewing trade of ireland'. 6.35 cm (2H in) diameter.;