Royal Copenhagen has introduced a new Fungi Flora Danica Collection. This is the first time since 1790 that the painters at Royal Copenhagen have painted an individual collection of fungi motifs on the gilt-edged porcelain.
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The magnificent Common Puffball stands proudly in shades of café au lait on the shiny white porcelain, so true to nature that you can almost smell the mossy forest floor and feel the thrill of finding mushrooms in the countryside.
The botanical accuracy and precise reproduction of the flora has ensured that Flora Danica porcelain is world famous. The 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.
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The colours used for the series of 26 motifs 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.
This new Flora Danica collection of fungi is available in a set of twelve dinner plates with different motifs, twelve deep plates with twelve more motifs, and two oval dishes. Altogether twenty-six different fungal motifs have been selected and they can also be bought individually. The plates are available either with or without the exclusive lace edge.
Priced from £1,350.00.
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