The ciborium has four storys. The first has four columns with gilded capitals, which are not a matching set. These columns support a horizontal entablature, with a frieze in blue with little white rosettes except at the front where an epigraph records the restoration of Pope Pius IX in 1851. The second story has three fresco panels on each side, and at each corner above the columns are two statues of saints each with its miniature Gothic canopy. The third story which is a large open relic chamber. The fourth story is the canopy. This has a spectacular spire with gilded crockets.