The present marble jardinière is taken from an Antique octagonal cinerary urn of D. Lucullus Felix, reputedly found in a tomb on the Via Appia, thence in the Cesi and Albani Collections and now in the Capitoline Museum. It was greatly admired from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and the design was used in different forms by Wedgwood, traditionally ascribed to Flaxman. The vivacious putti, sometimes entitled 'Sacrifice to Hymen', represent the hope of life after death.