A Höchst porcelain baluster vase and cover, circa 1770

of tall slender form, painted, on the front with a spray of fruit and flowers, the verso, neck and foot with smaller branches of fruit and flower sprigs, the shoulder and rims with gilt-scroll-edged puce-scale borders, the cover surmounted with a flower bud knop, gilt rims, crowned wheel mark in underglaze-blue, impressed letters NI or IN

Height 28 cm; 11in