Here's a secret: those aren't onions. The pattern the world calls "Blue Onion" was born at Germany's Meissen factory in the early 1700s, its designers copying Chinese pomegranates and peaches — and European eyes, unfamiliar with the fruit, saw onions instead. The name stuck for three hundred years. The Meissen Garden is a mid-century farmhouse take on that famous design: a generous kettle shape in cream, cobalt florals winding around her belly, a matte black lid, and a coiled wire handle arched overhead to spare your hands the heat.
