7 1/2" Diameter
White waves relief
Meissen capped the end of the 20th century with a beautiful new dinner service called “Waves." Designed by Sabine Wachs in cooperation with other Meissen artists, this extensive dinnerware service took no less than three years to develop. Each Meissen shape is created by hand; great artistic skill is needed to apply the relief texture of the waves design on the tableware.
The history of porcelain manufacturing in Europe begins in Meissen, Germany near Dresden, the cradle of European porcelain. Apart from the short-lived production of the Medici factory in Florence in the 1560's, Meissen was the first successful producer of hard-paste porcelain - or true porcelain - in Europe. Meissen's products, and those of its imitators, who came later, destroyed the supremacy of the oriental porcelain that had held a virtual monopoly in the world since Marco Polo opened the china trade in 1295.
In the 17th and 18th centurie
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