An oval cistern with strigal-flutes and bacchic ring-tamed lion-masks deriving from ancient sarcophagi and feature in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803, pl. 66; while the stands' spiral-reeding relates to a leg pattern published in his Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book of 1793. The strigal fluting can also be found on Thomas Hope's X-frame chair illustrated in his Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1809, pl. XX. Another antique source for these cisterns with their broad bands and fluted panels with lion-heads at the ends and centres may be the 'fountain' from Roccheggeani's Monumenti Antichi, illustrated by Henry Moses in his 'Collection of Antique Vases etc., 1814, pl. 145. Amongst related pairs of cisterns is that from the Tritton Collection, sold at Godmersham Park, Christie's house sale, 6-9 June 1983, lots 7 and 8.