A pair of Empire gilt and patinated bronze vases

A pair of Empire gilt and patinated bronze vases
on serpentine marble bases – circa 1805-1810

Height: 49 cm. (19 ¼ in.)    Width: 14.8 cm. (5 ¾ in.)   Width and depth of base: 13 cm. (5 in.)

Comparative literature: 

An identical pair of vases is currently arranged on the mantlepiece of the green porphyry chimney in the Salon de Musique of the Hôtel de Beauharnais in Paris. They are attributed to Claude Galle (1759-1815) and illustrated in J. Ebeling and U. Leben (eds.), Le style Empire: l’hôtel de Beauharnais à Paris. La résidence de l’ambassadeur d’Allemagne, Paris, 2016, p. 272, and Odile Nouvel-Kammerer (ed.), L’aigle et le papillon: symboles des pouvoirs sous Napoléon, 1800-1815, Paris, 2007, p. 84, fig. 6.