A Danish solitaire porcelain coffee service, comprising coffee pot with lid, coffee cup with associated saucer, sugar bowl with lid, creamer and cake bowl, decorated in gold and colours on white ground with purple ribbons and flowers, lid knobs in the form of pousseured roses and leaves. Coffee pot further decorated with a cartouche, in which a double portrait of the sisters, respectively to the left and right, Princess Marie and Princess Louise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderborg-Glücksburg; coffee cup also decorated with a cartouche, in which a view of Grünholz Manor; cake bowl moreover decorated with the coat of arms of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg family. Royal Copenhagen, c. 1870–1890. H. coffee cop with saucer 6.5 cm. H. coffee pot with lid 17.5 cm. (5)
Princess Marie of Glücksburg (1859–1941) and Princess Louise of Glücksburg (1858–1936) were daughters of Duke Friedrick of Glücksburg and his wife, Duchess Adelheid of Glücksburg, née Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe. Princess Marie was unmarried, while Princess Louise married Prince George Victor Waldeck and Pyrmont in 1891. Thus, the two sisters were siblings to Duke Friedrich Ferdinand of Glücksburg and Prins Albert of Glücksburg. The latter became grandfater to the sisters mentioned below.
Grünholz Manor is located on the Schwansen peninsula in Schleswig between the Baltic Sea and the Schlei. It was acquired by Duke Carl of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg in 1856 and has since been in the possession of the head of the family.
Provenance: ”The Historical Collection of Four Princesses From the Cavalier House of Glücksburg Castle”. The cultural heritage after the sisters, Her Highness Princess Elisabeth of Ysenburg and Büdingen, née Princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1945–2024), Her Highness Princess Irene of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1946), Her Highness Princess Margaretha of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1948), and Her Highness Princess Sibylla Ursula of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1955). Online auction no. 2545 at Bruun Rasmussen Arts Auctioneers in Lyngby, 3 November, 2025.
Minimal wear due to age and use, including a chip on leaf on the finial of the coffee pot lidt, a minimal chip on saucer edge, worn gilden edge on upper rim on cake bowl.
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