Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
c. 1500-before 1506
Medium
boxwood; later (18th century) embroidered silk pouch
Credit Line
Purchase, The Cloisters Collection; Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, by exchange; Bequest of Fannie F. Einstein, in memory of Emanuel Einstein, by exchange; The Michel David-Weill Foundation, Caroline Howard Hyman, and The Ruddock Foundation for the Arts Gifts; and Bequest of Mrs. A. M. Minturn, Gift of Alice M. Dike, Bequest of Gwynne M. Andrews, and Fletcher Fund, by exchange, 2017
Object Number
2017.10a, b
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
External Link
Description
Letter P, with smaller letters H and S set within, forming the monogram PHS, for Philippus. On interior, six roundels depicting the legend of the apostle Philip. Beginning with the three left-most roundels at top: Saint Philip setting out on his mission; Saint Philip preaching in Scythia; Saint Philip refusing to worship an idol and provoking the wrath of a dragon lurking within; on the two roundels below, the taking of Philip; the crucifixion of Philip. On the roundel at upper right, burial of Saint Philip.
Published References
Unpublished
Provenance
Previous Owner(s)
Philip the Handsome, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy and Brabant and King of Burgundia