A Meissen helmet-shaped ewer, mid 18th centuryDecorated in underglaze-blue with chrysanthemums and peonies enclosed by a fence, above moulded shellwork and foliage, the shaped foot with flowering branches, a trellis work border interspersed with four panels of flowers to the inside rim, the scrollwork handle with a moulded foliate thumbpiece, 20.5cm high, crossed swords mark and o in underglaze-blue (handle restuck)注脚Provenance:Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 26 October 1988, lot 61A similar ewer in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Spitzner Collection, is illustrated by Klaus-Peter Arnold, Meissener Blaumalerei aus drei Jahrhunderten (1989), no. 91.