The nozzles are formed as lotus-enriched oil jars embellished with Egyptian processional bas-relief figures and they stand on tripod altars with addorsed Antinous-Osiris figures. Hope's guide illustrated another pair of this pattern on pylon-shaped plinths (pl. XLIX) while this pair featured on the Isis-hermed table in the Boudoir which served as 'a repository of Egyptian, Hindoo and other curiosities' (pl. XIII). It is likely that Alexis Decaix, the bronzier of Rupert Street, Piccadilly, who was also patronised by George, Prince of Wales, was involved in their manufacture (see: M. Chapman, 'Thomas Hope's Vase and Alexis Decaix', Bulletin of the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1987, pp. 217-221).
A closely related maquette of an Egyptian figure by Claude Michel, dit Clodion, almost certainly representing Antinous, is illustrated in A. González-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, Milan, 1984, Tomo II, fig. 249, p. 117