TWELVE MID-20TH CENTURY ROYAL COPENHAGEN FLORA DANICA PORCELAIN TEA CUPS & SAUCERS,All pieces manufactured in the 1950's. All pieces are marked. Twelve cups, 2 11/16" tall with twelve saucers, 6 3/8" diameter. (24 pieces total).
Updated notes to condition: Please review notes below. 1/30/18.
The service's name and decorations stem from the botanical work Flora Danica whose fifty one volumes and total of over 3000 copperplate prints were issued in the period 1761-1883. The wide-ranging work reproduced in minute detail Danish flora. The great task of transcribing the botanical illustrations to the first service, which was commissioned by Danish King, Christian VII, became the life's work of one man – Johann Christoph Bayer, and required twelve years to complete. The original service is presently in the collection of H.M. Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.
Estimate $1,800-2,200
The saucers: One has an area of discoloration to underside to glaze. One has an old hairline which extends to back to rim area and losses to one of the serrated projections which has been repainted with gold paint. The tea cups and saucers are seconds.
