Blue Onion China (Blue Onion Porcelain) is porcelain first manufactured toward the middle of the Eighteenth Century by the famed Meissen works in Saxony. The name has since been co-opted by other porcelain makers.
The Meissen manufactory in what is now Germany (near Dresden), was the first European maker of hard-paste porcelain. As such, early products tended to resemble products made in China. Cobalt blue on a white background was a classic design dating back for centuries before the factory at Meissen began producing porcelain.
Those who look to Blue Onion porcelain to find what we consider present-day onions depicted will be disappointed. In fact, early designers at Meissen mimicked the earlier Chinese themes that featured fruit, peonies, flower bulbs, and pomegranates.
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Many other porcelain producers copied the Blue Onion concept throughout the rest of the Eighteenth Century and well into the Twentieth Century in locations as far away as Japan.
The Meissen Stove & Porcelain Manufactory which operated from the 1880s to 1929 at Eichwald, later owned by B. Bloch & Co. until 1940, made a form of Blue Onion porcelain.
The brothers Schoenau created their own version of Blue Onion china at Huttensteinach in Thuringia, Germany from 1900-1920.
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