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Flora Danica Dessert Plate

Royal Copenhagen Porcelain "Flora Danica" Dinner Service for 12
By Royal Copenhagen
Located in New York, NY
butter plates measuring 5.75" diameter 12 "3573" salad/ dessert plates measuring 7 5/8" diameter 12
Category

20th Century Danish Neoclassical Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

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Antique Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate
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Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate
H 0.79 in Dm 6.7 in L 0.79 in
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen flora Danica dessert plate # 20/3551. Measures: 17 cm. In perfect condition
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Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica dessert plate #20/3551. Measures 17 cm. In perfect condition
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Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate
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Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate
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Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate
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Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate
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Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate
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Antique Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate, 20/3552
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Antique Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica dessert plate. Early mark. Hand painted in highest quality
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Antique Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate, 20/3552
Located in Copenhagen, DK
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Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate # 20/3551
Located in Copenhagen, DK
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Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate # 20/3551
Located in Copenhagen, DK
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Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate # 20/3551
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Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate in Hand Painted Porcelain
Located in Copenhagen, DK
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Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate in Hand Painted Porcelain
Located in Copenhagen, DK
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Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate
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Located in Copenhagen, DK
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Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica dessert plate. Hand-painted in highest quality. Measures: 14 cm. in
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Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica dessert plate. Hand-painted in highest quality. Measures: 14 cm. in
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Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate # 20/3551
Located in Copenhagen, DK
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Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate # 20/3551
Located in Copenhagen, DK
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Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Dessert Plate # 20/3551
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Flora Danica Dessert Plate For Sale on 1stDibs

Find many varieties of an authentic flora danica dessert plate available at 1stDibs. Frequently made of ceramic and porcelain, every flora danica dessert plate was constructed with great care. There are many kinds of the flora danica dessert plate you’re looking for, from those produced as long ago as the 19th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. A flora danica dessert plate is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Neoclassical and Scandinavian Modern styles are sought with frequency. Many designers have produced at least one well-made flora danica dessert plate over the years, but those crafted by Royal Copenhagen are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much is a Flora Danica Dessert Plate?

The average selling price for a flora danica dessert plate at 1stDibs is $600, while they’re typically $200 on the low end and $7,450 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.