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- Oval vase of red jasper, streaked with grey, white and buff, mounted with two seated gilt-bronze infant satyrs holding vine swags looped behind their backs. The pedestal of each vase has been cast in several sections: an upper rectangular plinth set on a half-round moulding decorated with a scale pattern; a lower, large rectangular plinth and eight pairs of goats’ hooves, each pair cast separately. Although not by Gouthière, the mounts may date from the same period (1770-5) as the hardstone vases mounted for Gouthière by the duc d’Aumont, including the perfume-burner (F292) displayed in the Study at the Wallace Collection. Although the gilt-bronze mounts are heavier than on Gouthière’s authenticated works, they are nonetheless of very high quality.