A beautiful Royal Copenhagen porcelain figurine 12414 Amager boy with an overglaze decoration designed by Carl Martin Hansen as a part of the Danish National Costumes series bearing a Juliane Marie mark.

Design: Carl Martin Hansen 

Item number:  12414

Size: 15x6x6 cm

Technique: Underglaze

According to the mark, it was produced in 1938.

1st quality. There are several tiniest flaws on petals (see last photograph) and otherwise flawless condition. Given the age and fragility of flowers, the figurine is in excellent condition. 

Carl Martin-Hansen (1877-1941) Danish National Costumes. This series comprises all 47 figures, which were produced in the period 1906-1925. The artist was much admired by his contemporaries for his considerable production of busts and public monuments. He belonged to a school of Danish artists, which, after the turn of the century, carried on the naturalistic tradition in works, marked by both tastefulness and richness of characterization.

The series of Danish national coastlines was without doubt one of Carl Martin-Hansen's greatest successes. In keeping with the dictates of the school of art to which he belonged, he demanded that all the details in the regional costumes should be absolutely correct. They were copied from originals in the National and other Danish Museums. As can be dearly observed from the close-up pictures, which follow, not a single characteristic detail was missed out. This artistic criterion could only be met because the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory had at its disposal a staff of craftsmen, who had inherited a tradition for meticulous painting technique _own the generations from the factory's first golden age in the l780s.

The link with 18th-century traditions is also preserved here in another way. 42 of these figures formed part of a gift presented by the women of Denmark to King Christian X and Queen Alexandrine to mark their silver wedding in 1923. This gift consisted amongst otter items of 120 specially produced plates to go with the figurines, which were intended as a table decoration. The figurines represented typical costumes of the inhabitants of all the territories over which Christian X ruled, viz. Denmark, The Faeroe Islands and Greenland as well as Iceland which was in union with Denmark at the time, and Slesvig, the northern, Danish, part of which had voted to return to the mother country just three years before the Royal Silver Wedding.

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