This shrine was originally believed to be French and dated to the second quarter of the seventeenth century when it was bequeathed to the Museum in 1949. However, it is more likely to be a nineteenth-century attempt to recreate an early example of a religious object. The construction of the shrine is plagued with inconsistencies: the urn-shaped finials on the corners of the roof are paired illogically with the foliage-shaped cresting on the ribs of the roof; the classically-inspired columns at the sides of the shrine support not the roof (as would be usual) but stop short to accommodate an ornamental frieze. The wear on the unidentified maker's marks punched twice beneath the plaques on the sides of the casket is remarkably consistent; the iconography and design of the plaques themselves lacks the dense detail and visual clarity that would be characteristic of seventeenth-century representations. The shrine was once in the collection of the late-nineteenth-century dealer and collector S. W. Josephus Jitta, who would have been well-placed to obtain the different elements required to construct such a piece.