A large antique Italian Majolica vase in Renaissance manner, Pesaro, late 19th / early 20th century, of baluster shape with a pair of exuberantly scrolling handles between the shoulder and the everted mouth modelled as twinned serpents with a grotesque mask at the base, decorated in sixteenth century 'Istoriato' manner with the Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite to the front and a landscape to the reverse, the foot signed 'C. Gai / Pesaro'