Design Tableware Royal Copenhagen
Blue Fluted Full Lace
The Blue Fluted pattern with a lace border pierced by hand, first made in 1775 and revised in 1885 by Arnold Krog, who made it a full dinner service.
- Designed by
- Arnold Krog
- Made by
- Royal Copenhagen
- First made
- 1775
Pictures © Royal Copenhagen, from royalcopenhagen.com.
Why it is renowned
Full Lace is the Blue Fluted service with a pierced border: every hole in its lace border is made by hand and then painted with blue brushstrokes.1 The Denver Art Museum holds a Full Lace plate made in 1785–1790 and showed it in its exhibition Blue and White: A Ceramic Journey in 2011 and 2012.2 It belongs to the Blue Fluted (Musselmalet) family whose history Kalundborg Museum showed in an exhibition in 2019.3
The story
The pattern was first made in 1775 and revised in 1885 by Arnold Krog, the factory's artistic director.1 Krog admired a full lace dessert plate from the factory's early days and made Full Lace a complete dinner service; he also added the less intricate Blue Fluted Half Lace.4 Some plates carry a double lace border, its piercings set in a star-shaped pattern encircled by fish-scale decoration.5 On the teapot the lace border frames the lid, grotesque faces support the handle and spout, and a snail shell sits on top of the lid.6
Sources
- Blue Fluted Full Lace, Royal Copenhagen. royalcopenhagen.com, read 5 October 2026.
- Blue Fluted Full Lace Plate, Denver Art Museum. denverartmuseum.org, read 5 October 2026.
- Musselmalet – historien om et mønster, Sjællandske Nyheder. sn.dk, read 5 October 2026.
- Our History, Royal Copenhagen. royalcopenhagen.com, read 5 October 2026.
- Blue Fluted Full Lace Plate with Double Lace Border, 21 cm, Royal Copenhagen. royalcopenhagen.com, read 5 October 2026.
- Blue Fluted Full Lace Teapot, 100 cl, Royal Copenhagen. royalcopenhagen.com, read 5 October 2026.
Last checked 7 October 2026, against the maker's own pages.