A MEISSEN SCHNEEBALL VASE AND DOMED COVER after the original model by J. J. Kändler, of baluster form, applied in high relief with two birds and a snail perched on meandering green branches with flowered 'snowball' terminals, on an overall ground of yellow-centred white millefiori, the cover similarly decorated and applied with a beetle, the lower body pierced with trellis-pattern, on a knopped spreading foot (one bird on cover detached, part of one bird's beak on vase lacking, chips to flange of cover and to extremities, foot with riveted repair and further chips, one ball re-stuck), blue crossed swords mark, circa 1880