Large Meissen baluster vase with Indian floral decoration in the Famille Verte style Stretched ovoid, slightly domed body above the round stand with a strongly recessed shoulder and short cylindrical neck. Domed slip lid. Powder blue background with stylised flower and vine decoration all around the wall. Inside, four white, four-pass reserves with colourful Indian decoration of ascending peony and chrysanthemum branches with exotic birds and the depiction of a body of water with lotus flowers, other sea plants, a swimming duck and a bird flying above. Corresponding decoration on the lid. Polychrome painting with gold staffage. Model no. 51119, crossed swords mark. H. 37,5 cm. A similar lidded vase with comparable decoration and blue ground, modelled on a Chinese vase from Jingdezhen around 1700 to 1720, was made around 1730 with the "Augustus Rex" mark for the royal collection of Augustus the Strong in the Japanese Palace. Cf. Weber, Meissener nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, no. 320; Pietsch, Meissener Porzellan und seine ostasiatischen Vorbilder, p. 107, no. 49. A large baluster-shaped porcelain vase, the decor after a lidded vase with "Augustus Rex" mark of the Royal collection of August the Strong. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. 2nd half 20th century.