Pair of Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Porcelain Wine Coolers

#18075x: Pair of Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica Porcelain Wine Coolers
By Royal Copenhagen (Danish, founded 1775)
Danish, 20th century
Height: 16cm, width 26cm, depth 18cm
This pair of wine coolers belongs to the Flora Danica service, one of Royal Copenhagen's long-running patterns, originally commissioned in the late 18th century and inspired by the Danish botanical encyclopaedia of the same name, a catalogue documenting the plant life of the Danish kingdom.
Each cooler is potted in white porcelain of bucket form, raised on a gilt footrim and painted with a botanical specimen. The upper wall carries a band of gilt panels with pink grounds and beading, below a moulded gilt rim, while the twin branch-form handles are modelled in naturalistic tones and applied with roses, morning glory and other flowers.
The underside of each bears the Royal Copenhagen mark, the three-wave mark, the shape number 3599, and the Latin name of the plant depicted, painted in script — Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum L. and Vinca minor L. — reflecting the botanical basis of the service.
$24,000