While in the early years, the colour palette of many of the underglaze paintings was limited to cobalt blue tones, over the years the Danish factories perfected the chemical composition of other...

This wall plate, painted by Christian Benjamin Olsen (1873-1935) for Royal Copenhagen, was a wedding gift for the Danish king. The entwined initials C and A refer to King Christian X and his wife...

This early wall plate from 1890 by Carl Frederik Liisberg (1860-1909) shows how this painter experimented with soft contours and blended colours. Bleeding of the painted image during the firing at...

Bing & Grøndahl artists Fanny Garde (1855-1928) and Effie Hegermann-Lindencrone (1860-1945) considered it important to retain as much control as possible, from the beginning to the end of the...

Royal Copenhagen painter Stephan Ussing (1868-1958) is known for his depictions of swans. This choice of subject is understandable: unpainted porcelain comes out of the kiln perfectly white, a feature...

This vibrant painting was created in 1895 by Emma Meyer (1859-1921). It depicts one of the women’s painting studios in the Royal Copenhagen factory, showing different stages of the decorating process...

Everyone knows Claude Monet’s world-famous paintings of water lilies. But how many have seen these explosions of colour in person and lost themselves in the reflections of Monet’s water lily pond, no

A dance floor as a catwalk, with both models and professional dancers: in 2018 Maria Grazia Chiuri for Dior literally brought fashion and dance together. And she is certainly not the only designer who