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www.bluedanube-direct.com is the best place on the web to buy Blue Danube fine porcelain. We endeavour to provide the best service and shopping experience available. Our extensive range provides a great selection of dinnerware, kitchenware, collectables and gifts. We keep over 120 articles in stock.

Our prices are consistently discounted across the range to give you the best value dinnerware around.

All prices in this store are in U.S. Dollars. We ship worldwide.

Blue Danube Porcelain Dinnerware and Collectables

Blue Danube is made in Japan using the very best production techniques for fine porcelain. The factory itself is several generations old. Each piece is hand inspected before leaving the factory and packaged with care to prevent damage. All pieces are underglazed with a rich cobalt blue pigment to withstand the intensely hot firing of the vitreous overglaze. This process results in an outstandingly robust and attractive finish, for tableware that will last for generations.

Blue Danube is an interpretation of the renowned 'Schwiebel' or 'Onion' pattern, originally from the Meissen porcelain factory in Germany. In 1710, Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, established Europe's first porcelain manufactory in Meissen, a city of modern-day Germany. 

The artist Kandler , working for the Meissen factory, created the 'Blue Onion' pattern in 1734, inspired by a similar Chinese pattern fashioned during the Yang dynasty (1260-1368 A.D.). 

The design is a skilfully conceived grouping of several floral motifs. In the centre of the pattern can be found stylised peonies and asters, the stems of which wind in flowing curves around a bamboo stalk. 

Blue Danube has many of the shapes from the original Meissen articles. This, together with the motif, makes the product a genuine evergreen, whose style will never age. It is truly a product of the past, present and future.

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