The pedestal-supported vases, of wine-krater form inspired by the celebrated Borghese and Medici antiquities, are embellished with bacchic goat-heads and bas-reliefs of the bacchic youths of antiquity in a triumphal processon riding on goats and panther-drawn chariots. Their altar-pedestals, with laurel-wrapped plinths, are enriched with arabesque bas-reliefs of acanthus-supported tazzas of fruit centred round bacchic pines. Its form and bacchic relief relates to silver designs executed around 1810 by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (d. 1823), who in 1811 designed the King of Rome's cradle, commissioned by the City of Paris

These urns are also very similar to the oeuvre of the celebrated bronzier Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843). A closely related pair with Bacchanalian frieze, stamped by Thomire, was sold anonymously at Sotheby's Monaco, 7 December 1983, lot 1803, while a further pair with virtually identical socles was sold anonymously at Ader Picard Tajan, 7 March 1993, lot 150