Pair of jars of Japanese porcelain, ovoid potiche, tapering to the foot. Painted round the sides are pine, prunus and bamboo, with a pair of large phoenixes, pairs of cranes and pheasants, and two smaller birds on a branch, all framed by an irregular scrolling black border, on a ground of lotus scrollwork in blue, with a narrow lotus-petal panel border at the foot. Springing from an everted, fluted and gadrooned band enclosing the top rim is a pair of squared side handles with husk trails on a reed ground at each side, and with hatched grooves surrounded by burnished panels ending in satyr masks with vines wreathed about their heads at the shoulder below. Within the rim, added in England very likely between 1847 and 1850, is leafy foliage from among which rise two stems, each supporting three tulip-like candle holders. Each jar is set in a foliate and panelled gilt-bronze cup, on a domed acanthus-leaf stem with matt background, and square plinth with matt panels and concave corners.

The bronze mounts are French circa 1770 with later English additions dating to the second quarter of the 19th century in order to convert the vase into a six-light candelabra.