Oral tradition, collected by historiography, considers this chalice to be a gift from Charles V to Francisco de los Cobos of one of the goblets used during the celebration of his imperial coronation. J.M. Cruz Valdovinos (1992, p. 32), without denying a possible imperial gift, rejects that it could previously have been used as a domestic drinking cup. The same author dates the chalice to around 1495 and, by comparison with other similar chalices, in the absence of a mark, he considers it to be of Valladolid manufacture.
The base of the chalice has a mixtilinear plan decorated on the front with mouldings and openwork motifs and on the upper part with reliefs of vegetal motifs surrounding two enamelled shields with the five rampant lions placed in sotuer of the Cobos lineage. The hexagonal shaft is decorated with Gothic architectural motifs on both the lower and upper parts, motifs that stand out at the node with a cantilevered shrine formed by twelve niches, separated by large pinnacles and distributed in two bodies of different heights, which house images under canopies that, according to Cruz Valdovinos, represent an apostleship. The crown is decorated with superimposed thistle stems and flowers.