FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY, LACKING FINIALS

Krater vases, with this rectilinear form of handle, were sketched in Rome by the architect Charles Heathcote Tatham (d. 1842) and collected in the years 1795 and 1796 for Henry Holland, architect to George, Prince of Wales, later George IV. They were noted as being amongst the 'Various modern ornaments for Chimney Pieces etc.', chiefly worked in antique marbles of the rarest kind, and others found in excavations made at Rome. (Tatham Album, sold Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 1 June 2000, lot 90). While in Rome, Tatham also sketched a related long-necked marble vase as part of a candelabrum designed by the celebrated goldsmith bronze-founder Giuseppe Valadier (d.1839) (A. Gonzalez-Palacios, It Tempio del Gusto, Milan, 1986, vol.1, p.136, vol.11, p.123, pl. 265).