Sale 127 Lot 1263  

SEVENTEEN MID-20TH CENTURY ROYAL COPENHAGEN FLORA DANICA SCALLOPED PLATES WITH PIERCED BORDER, Various dates of manufacture, 1940's - '60's. All pieces are marked. Seventeen plates with scalloped rim and pierced border, with 8 13/16" diameter. Flowers depicted include: Pediculacis flammea, one untitled plate, Convallaria majolis, Pirus malus, Solanum dulcamara, Viola biflora, Lonicera xylosteum, Ononis repens, Achillea ptarmica Pedicularis silvatic, Hierocium pilosella, Vicia sativa, Cakile maritima, Anenome nemorosa, Brunella vulgaris, Calluna vulgaris, and Fragaria vesca. (some with old repairs - refer to condition notes below). (17 total).

Updated condition notes: Please review 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 $3,000-4,000

Of the scalloped pierced border plates, the following applies: The plates illustrating Pedicularis silvatica, Brunella vulgaris & Achillea prarmicas have a old very minor chip to one of the serrations to the rim. Some plates have had gold paint added to edges of serrated rims. All plates are seconds. Eight of the seventeen plates are very good.

Sold for $4,750

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