A pair of documentary Höchst faience vases and covers, circa 1750-53

Of baluster form with flared foot and domed cover, painted in polychrome enamels by Adam Ludwig and Philipp Zisler with butterflies and birds amidst flowering branches issuing from a terrace with pendant leaves and flowers, the reverse with scattered leaves and flowers, all below a border of trellis panels with a flowerhead and enclosed by foliage alternating with lappet-shaped panels enclosing a shell motif, flowers and foliage, the domed covers similarly decorated with a finial embellished with a black floral motif, 29.5cm high, ':P.Z:' and ':A.L:' flanking a wheel mark in black (some restoration to covers, chip to each footrim and one with small haircrack) (4)

Part of a garniture of which the central vase is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no. 50.211.196) and one of the beaker vases is in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (inv. no. 1956.127), all of which are signed by both Adam Ludwig and Philipp Zisler.

See G-D. Helke, Fayencen (2006), p. 89, for the beaker vase in Hamburg; both the beaker vase and the central vase in the Metropolitan Museum are published by H. Reber, Die Kurmainzische Porzellanmanufaktur Höchst, II: Fayencen (1986), ills. 164 and 170, respectively.