Objekt 3156
Reliquary Casket
Description
This house-shaped casket is remarkable for its many architectural features, including a pitched roof with projecting gables. In 1511 it housed relics of the Apostle Philip and Saint Verena, both of whom were venerated in different places inside the cathedral.
Object description
Gilded copper; blue paper
Upper Rhine, Basel (?), mid-15th cent.
1894.174.
Gift of Sophie von Knosp-Schmid