TWENTY TWO PIECES OF MID-20TH CENTURY ROYAL COPENHAGEN FLORA DANICA PORCELAIN SERVICE, INCLUDING SOUP BOWLS & DINNER PLATES,Circa 1940's - '60's. All pieces are marked. Seven dinner plates, with 10" diameter. Flowers depicted include: Linaria supuria l, Lychnis trifolora horn, Ajuojoi reptans L, Pulmonaria officinalis, Primula veris, Brunella groundiflora jacq., and Tussilago farfarus. Lot also includes fifteen soup bowls with slightly varying diameters, ranging from 9 5/8" to 9 6/8". Flowers depicted include: Allium schoenoprasum, Hippophaes rhamnoides, Rosa pimpinellifolia, Solanum nigrum, Taraxacum, Anthyllis vulneraria, Crepis multicaulis, Gentiana nivalis, Rubus chamaemorus, Inula vrabelyiana, Astragalus oroboides, Rebus arcticus, Ballota nigra, Geranium bohemicim, and Genista tinctoria. (Refer to condition notes below). (22 pieces total).
Updated notes to condition: 1/30/18. Please review.
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 $4,000-5,000
Of the soup bowls, Allium schoenoprasum, Solanum nigrum, Anthyllis vulneraria and Inula vrabelyiana all have one/two old minor chips to serrated rim which have been painted with gold paint. Astragalus oroboides has a small area of imperfection to the glaze at the underside of the rim. Four of the dinner plates have small chips to the rim.The soup bowls are seconds.
