Onion Dinnerware
19th and 20th century, 167 pieces: 15 dinner plates, 9 in. and 10 in.; 12 salad/dessert plates, 7-3/4 to 8 in.; 18 small plates, 6-5/8 in.; 11 sauce dishes; 30 regular cups (two different handle styles) with 18 deep saucers and 15 shallow saucers; 12 demitasse cups and saucers; cutlery with porcelain handles, including six steak knives with Sheffield serrated stainless steel blades, seven table knives with steel blades by various makers, six forks (three marked "STAHL"), two fruit knives with marked brass blades, one carving fork and two carving knives with Sheffield blades; ten knife rests, five porcelain serving/cooking utensils, one with wooden handle; serving pieces include large covered tureen and stand, 10-1/2 in.; six oval and two rectangular platters; two rectangular covered dishes; two-handled sauceboat with integral stand; oval openwork dish; round covered butter dish; square open vegetable dish; one covered dish with elaborate hand-cut handles; teapot and footed trivet with creamer and sugar, another cream and sugar; two mustard pots; miscellaneous items include plate, 5-1/4 in., and two lids, various Meissen marks throughout, including crossed swords, impressed "Colln/Meissen", printed "MEISSEN" in oval, and many marked "GERMANY" or "Germany" one cup missing handle, one cup with chip and crack, some tiny nicks to the scalloped rims on cups, tureen with repaired rim and stand with nicks and chips on the handles, sugar bowl lacking cover, one mustard pot lacking cover, one miscellaneous lid is badly broken. Provenance: Private Collection
Condition
one cup missing handle, one cup with chip and crack, some tiny nicks to the scalloped rims on cups, tureen with repaired rim and stand with nicks and chips on the handles, sugar bowl lacking cover, one mustard pot lacking cover, one miscellaneous lid is badly broken