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Rare Meissen Blue Onion fruit bowl
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Rare Meissen Blue Onion fruit bowl. The distinctive Blue Onion pattern is in the bottom of the bowl with lattice lace sections hand cut into the sides of the bowl. Each lattice lace section features a blue hand painted line highlighting the cut out shape. Displays the famous Meissen crossed swords on the back as well as the number 30 with a period following the number on the bottom rim edge. It is in excellent condition with a small crack in the top rim (see picture). Mark on this piece is one used circa 1815 and 1924.
Meissen background: It was in Meissen that perhaps the most famous of all antique China dinnerware was produced by Europeans, the unmistakable blue-and-white "Onion" pattern. While modeled as closely as possible after a pattern first produced by the Chinese (for European consumption) the plates and bowls styled in the Meissen factory in 1740 adopted a feel that was distinctly their own. This was largely due to the fact that the flowers and fruits pictured on the original Chinese pattern were unknown to the Meissen painters, and thus they created hybrids that more closely resembled ones 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 "Onion" pattern that resulted has become one of the most replicated in the world, with versions produced by hundreds of porcelain factories throughout Europe and Asia since that time. Many original pieces of Meissen Blue Onion dinnerware can be found in the Rarest Treasure collection. While t have been literally thousands of symbols used to designate porcelain produced in the Meissen Royal Manufactory, the most common and recognizable is the crossed-swords mark, used as early as 1728. We had a recent question about the size of the fruit bowl. Sorry for the omission. The fruit bowl is 10 3/4 " in diameter. 
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