Two Meissen blue onion covered tureens
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Two Meissen blue onion covered tureens
7.5 inches x 10 inches x 13.5 inches
9.5 inches x 13 inches x 8.5 inches
Meissen porcelain, also called Dresden porcelain or porcelaine de Saxe, German hard-paste, or true, porcelain produced at the Meissen factory, near Dresden in Saxony (now Germany), from 1710 until the present day. It was the first successfully produced true porcelain in Europe and dominated the style of European porcelain manufactured until about 1756, after which the leadership ultimately passed to French Sevres porcelain. The secret of true porcelain, similar to that produced in China, was discovered about 1707 by Johann Friedrich Bottger, an alchemist, and Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus, a physicist, whose research into porcelain had earlier produced a stoneware that is the hardest known substance of its kind. The earliest porcelain was smoky in tone and not highly translucent, but improvements to it were subsequently made.
The high point of the Meissen factory was reached after 1731 in the modelling of the sculptor Johann Joachim Kandler. An underglaze blue decoration called Zwiebelmuster, or onion pattern, was introduced about 1739 and was widely copied. (britannica.com)
7.5 inches x 10 inches x 13.5 inches
9.5 inches x 13 inches x 8.5 inches
Meissen porcelain, also called Dresden porcelain or porcelaine de Saxe, German hard-paste, or true, porcelain produced at the Meissen factory, near Dresden in Saxony (now Germany), from 1710 until the present day. It was the first successfully produced true porcelain in Europe and dominated the style of European porcelain manufactured until about 1756, after which the leadership ultimately passed to French Sevres porcelain. The secret of true porcelain, similar to that produced in China, was discovered about 1707 by Johann Friedrich Bottger, an alchemist, and Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus, a physicist, whose research into porcelain had earlier produced a stoneware that is the hardest known substance of its kind. The earliest porcelain was smoky in tone and not highly translucent, but improvements to it were subsequently made.
The high point of the Meissen factory was reached after 1731 in the modelling of the sculptor Johann Joachim Kandler. An underglaze blue decoration called Zwiebelmuster, or onion pattern, was introduced about 1739 and was widely copied. (britannica.com)
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Two Meissen blue onion covered tureens
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