"The 7th Duke of Marlborough sold the gem, catalogued as "The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche", together with the other Marlborough Gems, at Christie Manson & Wood, London, in 1875.The collection, sold in a single lot that brought £35,000, went to David Bromilow of Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, who maintained the collection intact; when his daughter subsequently sold the Marlborough gem with the rest of the Bromilow Marlborough hardstones by Christie's, 26–29 July 1899, the cameo was sold for £2000.