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Each with egg-and-dart-cast lip above a waisted body with satyrs and Bacchic putti, the underside wrapped in acanthus and with ram's mask handles to either side, on a leaf-wrapped socle and a square base decorated with fruit baskets to all sides, on a stiff-leaf-wrapped stepped plinth, drilled for electricity 201/2 in. (52 cm.) high (2) PROVENANCE Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 15 June 1995, lot 58 (œ13,800 inc. premium). NOTES These impressive vases, of wine-krater form inspired by the celebrated Borghese and Medici antiquities, are embellished with Bacchic goat-heads and bas-reliefs of festive youths in a triumphal procession riding on goats and panther-drawn chariots. The overall form and Bacchic relief ornament of these vases relates to silver designs executed around 1810 by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (d. 1823). The crisp quality of the chasing and overall design of these vases also closely relates to the work of the celebrated bronzier Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843). A very similar pair of vases signed by Thomire was sold Sotheby's Monaco, 7 December 1983, lot 1803.