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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

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