An exquisite hand painted Vienna porcelain vase in Baluster form

Baluster form, the fluted neck decorated in pink and gold against a green ground, the body finely painted with a genre scene depicting a man smoking a pipe in an interior with companions initialed "B.G." and indistinctly signed, within gilt framed cartouches flanked by bands of gilt arabesques against various colored grounds, raised on conforming socle and circular base, the underside with blue Vienna style mark, signed "3642" and titled in black script "Gr. Horts ja nicht".

Date: late 19th century
Size: Height: 20 3/4 in, Dia: 9 in.