Chats on Royal Copenhagen Porcelain

The after-effects of war--Philip Schou, Councillor of State, rebuilds the factory--Arnold Krog appointed art director--A new technique developed--Triumph of modern Copenhagen po...

The great outburst of activity in 1780--The manufacture of porcelain an assured success--A contemporary account of the factory--A national style created--The diversity of Müller...

The highest test to apply to a figure subject in porcelain is that it should be criticized in the biscuit stage. The crudities, the disproportioned ornament or the restless lack...

The Court of the young king Christian VII--A great Court scandal--A _Coup d'Etat_--The inception of the Porcelain Factory--The origin of the mark of the Three Blue Lines--Müller...

In order to understand the initial stages in the history of the manufacture of porcelain in Denmark, it is necessary to review the peculiar conditions in which china factories e...

The Crown Prince Frederik (afterwards Frederik VI) orders the Flora Danica service to be made--A period of twelve years occupied in making it--The taste of the Empress Catherine...

In the word _factory_ there is nothing suggestive of poetry. In England it represents the Frankenstein who has slain many cottage industries. In connection with our own potterie...

The student of ceramic art well knows that porcelain and earthenware, although as poles asunder in their technique, do oftentimes touch one another in apparent affinity. For ins...

Apart from the royal busts and statuettes, the sumptuous vases with portraits of royalties, and the magnificent services made for royal use or for some important personage, culm...

The great days of the Müller _régime_ had come to an end. A quarter of a century of brilliant success was followed by twice that length of gloom. The Arctic night of early ninet...

Krog, Arnold, Art Director at Royal Copenhagen Factory (from 1885), 210 his artistic impulses, 213 his development of new style in underglaze painting, 214 Traditional ornament...

The blue-and-white underglaze painted porcelain of Copenhagen has become recognized as characteristic of the royal factory and of Denmark. The original design is of Chinese orig...

During the last decade of the nineteenth century the Western potter came under the spell of the modern chemist. Scientific study applied to the body and glaze and vitrifaction o...

1775. A company formed, of which the members of the Royal Family held shares. The Dowager Queen Juliane Marie suggests the factory mark of the three blue lines, symbolizing the...

Placque. Wild Geese on Ice (_Arnold Krog_) 203 Placque. Autumnal Scene (_Arnold Krog_) 207 Placques. Kestrel (_V. Th. Fischer_); Meadow with Farmhouse (_C. F. Liisberg_) 211 Pla...

Portrait of Frantz Heinrich Müller 41 Vase with medallion portrait of Queen Juliane Marie 45 Vase with medallion portrait of Crown Prince Frederik 49 Tea and Coffee Service 53 S...

Statuette of a Hero. 1780 115 Two Figures of Sea Horses 119 Figure Group with Cupid 123 Figures. Old Woman; Man playing Flute 127 Figures. Market Woman and Lobster-seller 131 Fi...

Dish with tropical bird (_Christian Joachim_) 307 Placque with parrot (_Christian Joachim_) 311 Vase with floral decoration 315 Vase--hexagonal--with floral and arabesque decora...

Figure. Woman and Cow (_Chr. Thomsen_) 271 Figure. Boy and Calf (_Chr. Thomsen_) 275 Figures of Peasants. Child and Old Woman (_Chr. Thomsen_) 279 Figure Group. From Hans Christ...