Ciborium with Maltese Cross

The object is composed of the following parts: the cast and chased foot, which is riveted into the cast, chased, and turned bottom of the box; the hinge and lock, which are riveted into the wall of the box; the lid and the knob. The foot has a hexagonal nodus and tapers into six lobes. On one lobe a coat of arms is engraved (1 anchor, 2 cross). The round box and the round pointed lid are decorated with rings. The hinge and turn-lock are decorated with dragons. The knob has a Maltese cross. This, like the coat of arms on the foot, was added in the second half of the seventeenth century.