A Royal Vienna style cobalt blue and Gold-Ground 'Poesie' vase, late 19th century the slender baluster porcelain vase with a trumpet neck and circular pedestal foot, the body painted with classical women performing and playing musical instruments upon a gold ground, with successive floral and jewelled borders to the base and neck on a cobalt blue ground, the underside with overglaze blue beehive mark and inscribed 'Poesie' in script. Height 31.5 cm