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Fauna Danica

Royal Copenhagen Fauna Danica fish plate in porcelain.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen Fauna Danica fish plate. Hand-painted fish motif with gold decoration
Category

Vintage 1930s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Early and Rare Royal Copenhagen Fauna Danica Plate
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Early and rare Royal Copenhagen fauna danica plate in hand-painted porcelain with hunting motif and
Category

Antique 19th Century Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Large Royal Copenhagen Fauna Danica/ Flora Danica Porcelain Fish Strainer
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Large Royal Copenhagen Fauna Danica/ Flora Danica porcelain fish strainer modelled with hand
Category

Vintage 1950s Danish Platters and Serveware

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Fauna Danica fish plate. Hand-painted fish motif.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen Fauna Danica fish plate. Hand-painted fish motif with gold decoration
Category

Vintage 1930s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Fauna Danica fish plate in porcelain. Approx. 1930
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen Fauna Danica fish plate. Hand-painted fish motif with gold decoration
Category

Vintage 1930s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen, Six Fauna Danica Style Dinner Plates with Animal Motifs
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen, six Fauna Danica style dinner plates hand-painted with animal motifs. Decorated
Category

Vintage 1960s Danish Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Large Royal Copenhagen Fauna Danica Fish Grate in Hand-Painted Porcelain
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Large Royal Copenhagen Fauna Danica fish grate in hand-painted porcelain with fish and gold
Category

Vintage 1950s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Fauna Danica porcelain plate with fish motif. Approx. 1930
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen Fauna Danica fish plate. Hand-painted fish motif with gold decoration
Category

Vintage 1930s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Early and Rare Royal Copenhagen Fauna Danica Plate in Hand-Painted Porcelain
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Early and rare Royal Copenhagen Fauna Danica plate in hand-painted porcelain with hunting motif and
Category

Antique 19th Century Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen porcelain lunch plate with hand-painted fish motif
Located in Copenhagen, DK
/ Fauna Danica style. Dated 1965. Diameter: 22 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped. 3rd factory quality.
Category

Vintage 1960s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Dinner Plate with Hand-Painted Crayfish Motif
Located in Copenhagen, DK
/ Fauna Danica style. Dated 1968. Diameter: 25.5 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped. 3rd factory
Category

Vintage 1950s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen porcelain dinner plate with hand-painted fish motif
Located in Copenhagen, DK
/ Fauna Danica style. Dated 1951. Diameter: 25.5 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped. 3rd factory quality.
Category

Vintage 1950s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Dinner Plate with Hand-Painted Fish Motif
Located in Copenhagen, DK
/ Fauna Danica style. Dated 1951. Diameter: 25.5 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped. 3rd factory
Category

Vintage 1950s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Dinner Plate with Hand-Painted Fish Motif
Located in Copenhagen, DK
/ Fauna Danica style. Dated 1968. Diameter: 25.5 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped. 3rd factory
Category

Vintage 1960s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Dinner Plate with Hand-Painted Fish Motif
Located in Copenhagen, DK
/ Fauna Danica style. Dated 1968. Diameter: 25.5 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped. 3rd factory
Category

Vintage 1960s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

10 Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Fish Plates with Hand-Painted Fish Motifs
Located in Copenhagen, DK
. Fauna Danica style. Dated 1960. Diameter: 25.5 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped. 2nd factory
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Vintage 1960s Danish Porcelain

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Porcelain

12 Flora Danica Fish Plates, Vintage and Vibrantly Painted, Royal Copenhagen
By Royal Copenhagen
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
fauna. Flora Danica remains one of the world’s most luxurious porcelain collections, and each and every
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Vintage 1970s Danish Dinner Plates

Materials

Gold, Enamel

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Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Dinner Plate with Hand-Painted Fish Motif
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Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Dinner Plate with Hand-Painted Fish Motif
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Royal Copenhagen Fauna Danica Fish Plate in Hand-Painted Porcelain with Fish
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Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Dinner Plate with Hand-Painted Fish Motif
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Twelve Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Dinner Plates with Hand-Painted Fish Motifs
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Fauna Danica For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the fauna danica you’re looking for. Each fauna danica for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using ceramic and porcelain. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect fauna danica — we have versions that date back to the 19th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. A fauna danica is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Victorian, Neoclassical and Art Deco styles are sought with frequency. Many designers have produced at least one well-made fauna danica over the years, but those crafted by Royal Copenhagen are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much is a Fauna Danica?

The average selling price for a fauna danica at 1stDibs is $1,200, while they’re typically $700 on the low end and $28,490 for the highest priced.

Finding the Right porcelain for You

Today you’re likely to bring out your antique and vintage porcelain in order to dress up your dining table for a special meal.

Porcelain, a durable and nonporous kind of pottery made from clay and stone, was first made in China and spread across the world owing to the trade routes to the Far East established by Dutch and Portuguese merchants. Given its origin, English speakers called porcelain “fine china,” an expression you still might hear today. "Fine" indeed — for over a thousand years, it has been a highly sought-after material.

Meissen Porcelain, one of the first factories to create real porcelain outside Asia, popularized figurine centerpieces during the 18th century in Germany, while works by Capodimonte, a porcelain factory in Italy, are synonymous with flowers and notoriously hard to come by. Modern porcelain houses such as Maison Fragile of Limoges, France — long a hub of private porcelain manufacturing — keep the city’s long tradition alive while collaborating with venturesome contemporary artists such as illustrator Jean-Michel Tixier.

Porcelain is not totally clumsy-guest-proof, but it is surprisingly durable and easy to clean. Its low permeability and hardness have rendered porcelain wares a staple in kitchens and dining rooms as well as a common material for bathroom sinks and dental veneers. While it is tempting to store your porcelain behind closed glass cabinet doors and reserve it only for display, your porcelain dinner plates and serving platters can safely weather the “dangers” of the dining room and be used during meals.

Add different textures and colors to your table with dinner plates and pitchers of ceramic and silver or a porcelain lidded tureen, a serving dish with side handles that is often used for soups. Although porcelain and ceramic are both made in a kiln, porcelain is made with more refined clay and is stronger than ceramic because it is denser. 

On 1stDibs, browse an expansive collection of antique and vintage porcelain made in a variety of styles, including Regency, Scandinavian modern and other examples produced during the mid-century era, plus Rococo, which found its inspiration in nature and saw potters crafting animal figurines and integrating organic motifs such as floral patterns in their work.

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