This object is made of a chalice with a monstrance on top. The chalice has a circular base with a convex plinth decorated with abstract motifs over a gilded chiseled background together with eight pieces of mirror highlighted and polished; the turned shaft is made of a cylindrical pedestal with a string of sunken pieces of mirror and a big egg-shaped knot with outlined wedge-shaped ornaments; the larger chalice is supplemented with a smaller bulbous chalice adorned with wedge-shaped ornaments and crowned with a protruding border. The monstrance, fitted into the mouth of the chalice by means of a cylindrical piece, has the shape of a squared-base shrine with Tuscan columns in each corner, plant-like semicircular arches in its four faces and a straight entablature; over the axis of the brackets, there are four children sculptures and underneath, little hanging bells; it is crowned with a bell-shaped dome decorated with motifs identical to those of the chalice’s base and on top of the dome the shape of The Savior.

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