Description
Description:
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.
The high point of the Meissen factory was reached after 1731 in the modelling of the sculptor Johann Joachim Kändler. An underglaze blue decoration called Zwiebelmuster, or onion pattern, was introduced about 1739 and was widely copied. Meissen porcelain is marked with crossed blue swords.
Condition: In excellent condition.