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Flora Danica Coffee Cup

A Set of Six Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Porcelain Coffee Cups and Saucers.
A Set of Six Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Porcelain Coffee Cups and Saucers.

A Set of Six Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Porcelain Coffee Cups and Saucers.

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Buchanan, MI

A Set of Six Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Porcelain Coffee Cups and Saucers. A Set of Six Royal

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20th Century Danish Adam Style Tea Sets

Materials

Porcelain

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Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer. Royal Copenhagen No. 20/3597
Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer. Royal Copenhagen No. 20/3597

Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer. Royal Copenhagen No. 20/3597

Located in København, Copenhagen

Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Royal copenhagen no. 20/3597. Factory quality. In perfect

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20th Century Danish Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Trifolium Minus.
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Trifolium Minus.

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Trifolium Minus.

Located in København, Copenhagen

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. 1980-1984 Model number 20/3618 - Trifolium

Category

Vintage 1980s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Anemone Groenlandica.
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Anemone Groenlandica.

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Anemone Groenlandica.

Located in København, Copenhagen

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. 1980-1984. Model number 20/3618 - Anemone

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Vintage 1970s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Corrigiola Litoralis.
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Corrigiola Litoralis.

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Corrigiola Litoralis.

Located in København, Copenhagen

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. 1980-1984 Model number 20/3618 - Corrigiola

Category

Vintage 1980s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Ranunculus Lapponicus
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Ranunculus Lapponicus

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Ranunculus Lapponicus

Located in København, Copenhagen

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. 1969-1974. Model number 20/3618 - Ranunculus

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Vintage 1960s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Oxalis Acetosella
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Oxalis Acetosella

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Oxalis Acetosella

Located in København, Copenhagen

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. 1969-1974. Model number 20/3618 - Oxalis

Category

Vintage 1960s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. 1980-1984
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. 1980-1984

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. 1980-1984

Located in København, Copenhagen

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. 1980-1984 Model number 20/3618 - Veronica

Category

Vintage 1980s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup with saucer in porcelain.
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup with saucer in porcelain.

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup with saucer in porcelain.

Located in København, Copenhagen

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup with saucer in porcelain. Hand-painted. Cup model: 072

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1990s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Epilobium Alpinum L.
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Epilobium Alpinum L.

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Epilobium Alpinum L.

Located in København, Copenhagen

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. 1969-1974. Model number 20/3618 - Epilobium

Category

Vintage 1960s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Veronica Alpina L.
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Veronica Alpina L.

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Veronica Alpina L.

Located in København, Copenhagen

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. 1975-1979. Model number 20/3618 - Veronica

Category

Vintage 1970s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Draba Hirta Oed.
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Draba Hirta Oed.

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. Draba Hirta Oed.

Located in København, Copenhagen

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer. 1980-1984. Model number 20/3618 - Draba Hirta

Category

Vintage 1980s Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Stellaria sp Coffee Cup and Saucer #20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Stellaria sp Coffee Cup and Saucer #20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Stellaria sp Coffee Cup and Saucer #20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Miami Beach, FL

Beautiful hand painted Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Stellaria sp coffee cup and Saucer features a

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Mid-20th Century Danish Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup #20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup #20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup #20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup #20/3597. Measure: 7 x 7 cm. (2 3/4 in).

Category

Late 20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer #20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer #20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer #20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer #20/3597. Latin Name: Campanula Rotundifolia

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Late 20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer no 20/3597. Latin name: Stellaria sp. Measures

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer no 20/3597. Latin name: Stellaria sp. Measures

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer no 20/3597. Latin name: Saxifraga sp. Measures

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer No 20/3597. Latin name: Cerastium tetrandrum

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer no 20/3597. Latin Name: Campanula heredacea L

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer no 20/3597. Latin Name: Ranunculus lapponicus

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer No 20/3597. Latin name: Euphrasis officinalis L

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer No 20/3597. Latin name: Potentilla retusa Müll

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer No 20/3597. Latin name: Stellaria humfusa Rottb

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer no 20/3597. Latin name: Stellaria humfusa Rottb

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer no 20/3597. Latin name: Qxycoceus palustris

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer no 20/3597. Latin name: Potentilla retusa Müll

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer no 20/3597. Latin Name: Eupharasia officinalis

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer no. 20/3597. Latin name: Trigonella

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer no 20/3597. Latin Name: Gentiana sp. Oed

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer no 20/3597. Latin name: Sedum aizangulare Horn

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen flora Danica coffee cup and saucer No 20/3597. Latin name: Anagallis tenella L

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer no 20/3597. Latin name: Anemone groenlandica

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer no 20/3597. Latin name: Qxycoceus palustris

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer No 20/3597. Latin name: Andromeda polifolia L

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer no 20/3597. Latin name: Potentilla retusa Müll

Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer no 20/3597. Latin name: Campanula Rotundifolia

Category

Vintage 1950s Danish Empire Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Coffee Cup and Saucer No 20/3597

By Royal Copenhagen

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica coffee cup and saucer no 20/3597. Latin Name: Carolamine Bellidifolia

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Vintage 1950s Danish Empire Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

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Located in Buchanan, MI

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Located in Buchanan, MI

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Flora Danica Coffee Cup For Sale on 1stDibs

Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the flora danica coffee cup you’re looking for at 1stDibs. Each flora danica coffee cup for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using ceramic and porcelain. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect flora danica coffee cup — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. A flora danica coffee cup, designed in the Neoclassical or Empire style, is generally a popular piece of furniture.

How Much is a Flora Danica Coffee Cup?

Prices for a flora danica coffee cup can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, they begin at $590 and can go as high as $60,942, while the average can fetch as much as $1,421.

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.