LARGE PORCELAIN SERIVCE "FLORA DANICA".

Royal Copenhagen.
Maker/Designer: Model J.C. Bayer.
Technique: Porcelain; enriched in colours and gold.
Description: In total 78 pieces consisting of: 8 dinner plates; 8 soup plates; 8 coffee cups with 8
saucers; 8 dessert plates; 10 mocha cups with 10 saucers; 10 pastry plates; 1 sugar bowl;
1 cream jug; 1 oval bonbonni鑢e; 1 large round serving dish; 1 large oval meat dish; 1
rectangular vegetable bowl; 1 sauce boat with attached saucer; 1 large oval tureen.
Mark: Manufacture mark; various year marks and model numbers; most pieces inscribed with Latin plant names.


Flora Danica (lat. Danish flora) is the name of a botanical atlas that was started in 1753
by Christian Oeder; director of the Botanical Garden in Copenhagen. It took 122 years
until the entire flora of the Danish state was recorded in the manner of a herbarium - and
the extensive encyclopedia was completed. In 1790; the Danish Crown Prince and later King
Frederick VI ordered an extensive dinner service from the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in
Copenhagen; which was to bear not only the name but also the motifs of 'Flora Danica'. It
was intended as a gift for the Russian Tsarina Catherine II; who died in 1796; before the
service was completed in 1802. Thus deprived of its original purpose; the service was kept
by the Danish Court; where parts of it are still used for state banquets at Christiansborg
Castle.