Leather Box for the Pennant of Francis I at the Battle of Pavia

1525 (Renaissance)

14.5 cm 6.2 cm 10.2 cm

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This box was a Habsburg secular reliquary. The inscription inside records that it once held the personal pennant of the French king Francis I, taken at his capture in 1525 on the battlefield at Pavia, Italy, after the defeat of the French army by that of Emperor Charles V. The...

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Charles Stein (1840-1899), Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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