A small Meissen lobed almond-shaped dish, circa 1725Painted in underglaze-blue with flowers in a double-handled pot on a table top, the fluted sides with flowering branches, 14cm long (small chips to outside rim)注脚Provenance:Anon. sale, Christie's London, 5 December 1994, lot 214The form is listed in the weekly reports of the work of the Dreher and Former between 1723 and 1727, where it is referred to as a 'Schiffchen' [little ship], 'gemuschelt' or 'gerippt' [ie lobed]; quoted by Claus Boltz, Die wöchentlichen Berichte über die Tätigkeit der Meissner Dreher und Former vom 6. Juni 1722 bus 31. Dezember 1728, in Keramos 178 (2002), p. 82, and ills. 75 and 76 for other examples of the form.