Flora Danica Mushrooms, soup plate with Horn of Plenty, open-work border, produced by Royal Copenhagenn
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2602634
Royal Copenhagen
69111000
9,4" / 24 cm
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Flora Danica Mushrooms, soup plate with Horn of Plenty, open-work border, produced by Royal Copenhagenn
On the shiny white porcelain the magnificent
common puffball stands proudly in shades of
café au lait. It is so true to nature that
you can almost smell the mossy forest floor
and feel the thrill of finding mushrooms in
the countryside. It is the botanical
accuracy and precise reproduction of the
flora that has made Flora Danica porcelain
world famous. The porcelain painter's
personal enthusiasm and artistic skill give
the motif depth and fine nuances so that it
seems to rise expressively in three
dimensions from the surface of the plate.
The 26 motifs depicting fungi now being
introduced into the Flora Danica range might
be slightly startling to romantic spirits.
The colours used for the series of fungi
were determined autocratically by nature,
with browns and greys, white, fiery reds
and a few purple shades among the golden
hues of the forest floor. The result is
striking, uncompromising and alluring.
The history of Flora Danica goes back to
1790, when King Christian VII ordered the
first Flora Danica service from the Royal
Danish Porcelain Manufactory. The service
was intended as a diplomatic gift to the
empress Catherine II of Russia, and was de
signed to symbolise the most outstanding in
Danish artistry and craftsmanship. The
motifs for the service were taken from the
comprehensive publication entitled Flora
Danica, in which plants from the entire
Kingdom of Denmark were illustrated
according the principles of the Swedish
naturalist Carl von Linné. In book form the
work includes more than 3,000 hand-coloured
copperplates of flowers, trees, aquatic
plants and fungi.
The actual process of painting the fungi
takes longer and is more demanding than the
other Flora Danica motifs, because each
motif or group of fungi is repeated in a
smaller size around the edge of the plate
or dish. In other words, each fungus is
painted seven times altogether on each item
- meticulously correct every time, down to
the last detail of the anatomy of the
fungus.
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