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