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| Keywords: Don Juan Lopez Quixada - Leather Box for the Pennant of Francis I at the Battle of Pavia - Walters 731.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Patron Creator Don Juan Lopez Quixada Artist 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 box made to contain the folded silk pennant bears the arms of the Habsburg commander Don Juan Lopez Quixada who captured the pennant now in the Musée de la Porte de Hal Brussels 1525 Renaissance molded and incised leather glass cameos partially gilded and enameled silver paper H 2 7/16 x L 5 11/16 x W 4 in 6 19 x 14 45 x 10 16 cm accession number 73 1 2330 Charles Stein 1840-1899 Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore date of acquisition unknown by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Translation on interior lid engraved on two plaques of silver apparently cut from another object Don Juan Lopez Quixada doctor of canon law and choir master won the standard that lies here and these very saint relics when the King of France lost the Battle of Pavia and was made prisoner by the Spaniards the 25th of February of the year 1525 World of Wonder Walters Treasures of Heaven The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; The British Museum London 2010-2011 place of origin Spain Walters Art Museum license Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum Don Juan Lopez Quixada Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review | ||||
