20TH CENTURY

These bronze tazza on plinths, festooned with bacchic masks of lions and rams, are conceived in the 19th-century antique manner, and their Atlas caryatids derive from a Roman antiquity illustrated in Giovanni Battista Piranesi's, Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi, Rome, 1778, pls. 50-51.