Communion box (ciborium)

silver partly gilded; height 32.5 cm width 15.5 cm, depth 15.5 cm, diameter of spigot 12.2 cm; weight 734 g.
France, 1st quarter of the 20th century.
On a multi-leafed, stepped, molded pedestal and a six-sided foot decorated with engraved band ornament and emblems of the Passion of Christ and the inscription IHS; the stem is cylindrical with a nodus in the form of a flattened sphere with rhombic buttons, the bowl is hemispherical with a flattened bottom enclosed in a kind of openwork basket decorated with a series of overlapping arcades; the lid is circular, exalted in a convex manner, above a six-divided foot decorated with symbols of holy martyrs and topped with a cross. The interior is gilded.