Royal Copenhagen

Royal Copenhagen is the Danish porcelain manufacturer founded in 1775 as the Danish Porcelain Manufactury, under the patronage of Dowager Queen Juliane Marie and run by apothecary Frantz Henrich Müller. Its first pattern, Blue Fluted Plain, was painted by hand from the outset and is still in production as Pattern No. 1.

The factory became the Royal Danish Porcelain Factory in 1779, when the crown took over its finances, and its artistic line runs through the twentieth century – Thorkild Olsen, Axel Salto, Gertrud Vasegaard, Henning Koppel, Erik Magnussen and Grethe Meyer among them. The flagship store has sat at Amagertorv 6 since 1911, and the cobalt painting is still done by hand, which is why no two pieces leave the workshop identical.