MEISSEN New Cutout Blue Onion Soup Plate

The MEISSEN New Cutout Blue Onion Soup Plate is a rimmed plate for soup, pasta, or a composed first course. Its finely scalloped, petal-like rim follows the New Cutout form created around 1745 by Johann Joachim Kaendler. The Blue Onion pattern of peony and aster blossoms, bamboo, and stylized fruit is painted by hand in cobalt blue beneath the glaze at the MEISSEN Manufactory in Germany, so the color keeps its depth through years of use.

Known in German as Zwiebelmuster, Blue Onion is the signature of MEISSEN blue and white porcelain and a fixture of heirloom tables in Europe and America. Ideal for pasta, risotto, or soup at a seated dinner, it also layers neatly over a dinner plate.