A pair of antique Italian Majolica vases in Renaissance manner, late 19th / early 20th century, each of baluster shape with a pair of scrolling handles between the shoulder and the everted mouth modelled as twinned serpents with a grotesque mask at the base, each with its original separate low plinth, decorated in sixteenth century 'Istoriato' manner with classical mythological scenes to the front and reverse, each 79 cm high, including plinth