Although not marked as such, this vase has all the hallmarks of the firm Scheurich Keramik which started production in 1954, rather later than most of its competitors, but soon became the largest producer of commercial art pottery in Germany. Their pieces rarely carried the factory name but usually the model number followed by the height in centimetres with ‘W.Germany’ below, as here. Model ‘268’ (which sometimes occurs complete with a paper label for Scheurich and was made in at least two sizes) can be found in a variety of different glazes but the colouring here is particularly striking. Dating is to the 1960s.