Such a ciborium is sometimes also referred to as a baldachin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ciborium] Reference

Milan, where the tympana of the well-known baldachin are of this material, and contain modelled figures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

A baldachin of silk and gold brocade ran up the wall behind and then in billowing folds out over the two head tables.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soul of the Fire]

Below the dome, just behind John Paul's bier, stands the basilica's altar, decorated with Bernini's bronze baldachin.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Millions of mourners bid farewell to Pope John Paul II] Reference

In this instance, swirling bronze Solomonic columns and an exuberant superstructure were inspired by Bernini's baldachin at St. Peter's.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Return to Grace] Reference

Over the coffin there was a Gothic baldachin of iron in the shape of a tabernacle, and the whole was enclosed by ornamental iron railings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master Builder] Reference

Sitting to His side on the baldachin are St. Margaret to the left (see her attribute, the dragon, in German Wurm) and St. George to the right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catholic Bamberg: Vierzehnheiligen] Reference

She rode beneath a purple baldachin, which the doctors of Ferrara -- that is, the members of the faculties of law, medicine, and mathematics -- supported in turn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference

"Constantine Fighting the Lion" from a twelve-piece set, plus baldachin with dossal, of the Story of Constantine Design and cartoon by Pietro da Cortona, ca. 1636.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor'] Reference

To protect the altar a baldachin has been erected over it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe] Reference

The coffin was placed upon a rich catafalque beneath a velvet baldachin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Best Russian Short Stories] Reference

So they walked on, followed by the Roman princes, bearing a splendid baldachin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lothair] Reference

Under a magnificently embroidered baldachin blazed the ducal arms: a unicorn on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child of Pleasure] Reference

The bed loomed mysteriously in one corner with its baldachin of Gobelin tapestry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Hope] Reference

The litter stopped before a baldachin under which was an ebony throne on an elevation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference

But chances are he would silent have favored to describe it as an open cupola or a baldachin.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Chronicle] Reference

Under the baldachin hovered a gilded Cupid, spotted and faded, with his arrow aimed at the bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Precipice] Reference

When the prince landed, the priests approached with a baldachin, and the worthy nomarch Otoes began.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference

In former times the king, from an ogival baldachin, displayed to the people the relics of the Passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

Even the magnificent bronzes of the Pantheon were stripped to make the baldachin under the dome of St. Peter's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Views a-foot] Reference

Ramses occupied his place beneath a baldachin whence there was a view of the court, his retinue sat down at the tables.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference

In the hall Prince Ramses sat on an elevated chair beneath a baldachin, while at the entrance door appeared the herald.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference

She stared up at the tasseled baldachin with its furled draperies, and fingered the lace covering and the silken comforter.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Can't Have Everything] Reference

The clouds had rolled upward, obscuring the sunshine and hanging like a funereal baldachin above the projecting cornices of Doctor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of the Dead Hand] Reference

Two of the biggest, sir, stood in the adytum to form the baldachin over the Ark. But the wings of thim sculptures was intindid for horns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixes and Sevens] Reference

More elaborate monuments have frequently an additional structure above and around them, as a baldachin, e.g. the tomb of the Della Scala at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

When he sat down in his boat, which was furnished with a baldachin and curtains, he drew a deep breath and draining a large goblet of wine, thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference

A knife, in the left hand a book, under a dome-shaped baldachin or canopy in the style of the Renaissance, supported on two pilasters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less] Reference

"Though there are columns along the back of the altar and a fifty-seven-foot baldachin, that's a bronze gazebo-type structure, over the altar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Step on a Crack]

Inside, the focus is once again on a baldachin.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Return to Grace] Reference

The flowery baldachin chariot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Former Han Dynasty] Reference

And a baldachin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surviving enemy territory] Reference