A PAIR OF DIRECTOIRE BRONZE, GILT-BRONZE AND PARIS PORCELAIN VASES, each with tapering cup with gilded interior, one decorated with insects in a scrolled acanthus border with husk-trailed rosette lozenges on a white ground, the other with husks issuing acanthus scrolls and floral trails flanked by stylised vases, supported by stiff-leaf and palmette handles terminating in stylised eagle's heads and scrolled tails, the whole supported on a stiff-leaf domed spray and fluted shaft on a beaded stiff-leaf spreading socle with engine-turned base and foliate claw feet, the porcelain circa 1790 | Christie's

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A PAIR OF DIRECTOIRE BRONZE, GILT-BRONZE AND PARIS PORCELAIN VASES, each with tapering cup with gilded interior, one decorated with insects in a scrolled acanthus border with husk-trailed rosette lozenges on a white ground, the other with husks issuing acanthus scrolls and floral trails flanked by stylised vases, supported by stiff-leaf and palmette handles terminating in stylised eagle's heads and scrolled tails, the whole supported on a stiff-leaf domed spray and fluted shaft on a beaded stiff-leaf spreading socle with engine-turned base and foliate claw feet, the porcelain circa 1790

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A PAIR OF DIRECTOIRE BRONZE, GILT-BRONZE AND PARIS PORCELAIN VASES, each with tapering cup with gilded interior, one decorated with insects in a scrolled acanthus border with husk-trailed rosette lozenges on a white ground, the other with husks issuing acanthus scrolls and floral trails flanked by stylised vases, supported by stiff-leaf and palmette handles terminating in stylised eagle's heads and scrolled tails, the whole supported on a stiff-leaf domed spray and fluted shaft on a beaded stiff-leaf spreading socle with engine-turned base and foliate claw feet, the porcelain circa 1790
6in. (15.5cm.) wide; 6½in. (16.5cm.) high (2)