A pair of Napoleon III gilt bronze vases cast by Ferdiand Barbedienne after a model by Henry Cahieux, Paris, circa 1860, each with amphora shaped body decorated with low relief mythological figures, flanked to each side by a handle surmounted by a female mask, above a tapering body on a circular socle and raised on a square onyx base with gilt bronze feet, signed at the base Henry Cahieux and F. Barbedienne Fondeur 61 cm high