Seagull with gold Decor
Danish Nature and Craftsmanship
In 1895, litlle did designer Fanny Garde realise how widely popular the Royal Copenhagen dinner service, Seagull, would become. It has often been described as one of the most typical Danish objects you can buy.
Fanny was one of the pioneers of this development, and Seagull with Gold was one of the first popular dinner services produced using this special craftsmanship technique.
The Seagull service was created at the dawn of the Art Nouveau era, and expresses the then completely new feeling: the need for nature, light and air. Natural subjects were much in vogue, and Fanny Garde chose the seagull as her main motif.
Graceful seagulls glide over plates and other pieces. Pale blue lower halves blend completely into the white on the top halves. Sea horses form handles and scales form the pattern round the edges.
Seagull, together with Blue Fluted and Blue Flower, is one of the 20th century’s most popular porcelain services in Denmark, and has, naturally, a place at The Danish National Museum as an example of something typically Danish.
Seagull is decorated with gold along the borders, on the beak of the seagull and on the sea horse.