This flaming-cassolette krater-shaped oil vase sits in a twin-spouted and thyrsus-finialed Roman-lamp tazza, which is suspended from palmette-flowered chains by serpents twined through its Grecian handles with paired Egyptian bacchante-masks. This derives from patterns such as featured in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration of 1807.
A closely related triple-branched lamp with bacchic masks was sold anonymously, Christie's South Kensington, 3 July 1991, lot 173