A PAIR OF DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED ALABASTER VASES, the circular domed covers with naturalistic flowering finials, with laurel-engraved neck flanked by pierced winged handles, the tapering bodies mounted with tasselled flowerhead swags suspended from entwined rope, the bottom engraved with elongated laurel and on a turned socle and square plinth mounted with reeding, restorations, possibly not French