This spelndid bronze aquatic vase is very similar to that of a Wedgewood vase in the British Musesum, Falcke Collection, of black basalt. The design for which was supplied to Wedgewood by John Flaxman, senior. It has been suggested that Flaxman may have adapted his design from an earlier French original, reflected in a pair of similar French vases modelled after Clodion in the Wallace Collection, Manchester Square, London.