Luncheon Plate in Blue Onion by ZWIEBELMUSTER. Original Karlsbader Zwiebelmuster Crafted in Czechoslovak. Wonderful Blue Onion colors of blue and white, perfect for any house! Perfect gift to give! Please view our store for other items matching this set for sale! Sold in single pieces.
Size: 9-5/8"wx9-5/8"dx1-3/8"h No imperfections in these items.
About Blue Onion:
The "onion" pattern was originally named the "bulb" pattern.
While modeled closely after a pattern first produced by Chinese porcelain painters, which featured pomegranates unfamiliar in Saxony, the plates and bowls produced in the Meissen factory in 1740 adopted a feel that was distinctly their own. Among the earliest Chinese examples are underglaze blue and white porcelains of the early Ming Dynasty. The Meissen painters created hybrids that resembled flora more familiar to Europeans. The so-called "onions" are not onions at all, but, according to historians, are most likely mutations of the peaches and pomegranates modeled on the original Chinese pattern. The buy whole design is an ingeniously conceived grouping of several floral motifs with stylized peonies and asters in the pattern's center, the stems of which wind in flowing curves around a bamboo stalk.
Before the end of the 18th century, other porcelain factories were copying the Meissen Zwiebelmuster. In the 19th century almost all the European manufacturers offered a version, with transfer-printed outlines that were colored in by hand. Enoch Wedgwood's pattern in the 1870s was even known as "Meissen". Today a Japanese version called "Blue Danube" features among the hundred most popular tableware patterns.
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