A rare and important pair of Empire gilt bronze and Vert de Mer marble covered vases attributed to Claude Galle, each of krater form surmounted by a domed cover with a foliate vase-shaped finial and mounted with pierced palmette decorations, the main body cast with dancing maenads in diaphanous dress each interspersed by a flaming athénienne, the vase with rams' head handles upon which are seated a pair of outward facing putti, one playing a pair of cymbals the other a triangle,
