753 - A PAIR OF LARGE FRENCH GILT AND PATINATED BRONZE BRULE PARFUMS IN THE MANNER OF PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE late 19th Century, in the Empire taste, each of campana form, the domed and pierced cover with a gilt rosette and acorn finial set within a dished everted rim, one with a separately cast border of trailing vine and grape clusters, the body cast in relief with a continuous frieze of dancing maenads between tripod braziers beneath a band of oak leaves, the compressed lower bowl applied with rams' masks, palm fronds and pendant fruit beneath a girdle applied with stars, upon a gadrooned socle and a laurel wreath, raised on a stepped square plinth applied to the front with a flaming urn flanked by seated griffins amid foliate scrolls and ribbon tied garlands and to the sides with classical portrait medallions, the base with a band of oak leaves and acorns. (2) 67cm high