gr ndahl bing & gr ndahl s first factory near the vesterbrogade 1856 type porcelain manufacturer founded 1853 headquarters copenhagen denmark website royal copenhagen bing & gr ndahl was a danish porcelain manufacturer founded in 1853 by the sculptor frederik vilhelm gr ndahl and merchant brothers meyer hermann bing and jacob herman bing . 1 the trademark backstamp for bing & gr ndahl b & g porcelains is the three towers derived from the coat of arms of copenhagen . 2 the company s seagull dinnerware series became known as the national service of denmark in the 1950s when it was found in one tenth of all danish households . in 1987 the company merged with its primary competitor the royal porcelain factory under the name royal copenhagen . contents 1 history 2 notes 3 references 4 external links 5 see also history edit bing & gr ndahl was founded on april 15 1853 by gr ndahl who was a figurine maker for the royal danish porcelain factory and the bing brothers who were art and book dealers . the factory was located on the corner of vesterbrogade and rahbek all in the vesterbro area at that time outside the city of copenhagen denmark . gr ndahl initially began the company to produce bisque figurines modeled on the neoclassical sculptures of thorvaldsen . the company extended production to include high style dinnerware and coffee sets . 1 bing & gr ndahl s seagull dinnerware designed by fanny garde in 1895 the company s signature design seagull was created in 1892 by designer fanny garde 1855 1925 . the modest classic design features flying seagulls against pale blue backgrounds sea horse handles and shaded patterns of scales around the edges . due to its popularity from the 1950s to the 1980s the seagull design was considered the national service of denmark . during that period one out of every ten danish households owned some of the dinnerware service . in 1895 bing & gr ndahl created the first in their series of christmas plates . designed with a traditional winter scene in cobalt blue and white the plates have been released annually for more than 100 years . noted as desirable by collectors this series became responsible for a large portion of the company s production . in 1987 the company merged with its primary competitor the royal porcelain factory under the name royal copenhagen . bing & gr ndahl porcelain painter designed by jens peter dahl jensen 1915 the tea service designed by gertrud vasegaard in 1956 was included in the danish culture canon as a masterpiece of danish design . 3 notes edit a b smyth p. 121 pope testel 1956 gertrud vasegaard f. 1913 in kulturkontacten 20 2006 . danish retrieved 12 february 2013 . references edit engelstoft poul porcel nsfabrikken bing & gr ndahl 1853 1928 poul engelstoft og j.h. bing . ill . kbh . 1928 90pp minardi robin hecht scandinavian art pottery denmark and sweden schiffer publishing ltd. rev. 2nd ed . 2005 p. 36 46 isbn 0 7643 2239 7 owen pat story of bing and grondahl christmas plates viking import house 1985 isbn 0 911576 02 9 owen pat bing and grondahl christmas plates the first hundred years landfall press 1995 255pp isbn 0 913428 76 0 pope caroline & nick bing & grondahl figurines schiffer 2002 . 248pp smyth robert leslie and r. s. weightman the international ceramic tableware industry taylor & francis 1984 isbn 0 7099 2352 x zahle erik bing and grondahl 1853 1953 danish museum of decorative art 1953 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to royal copenhagen . royal copenhagen official website bing & grondahl factory marks 1853 to 2003 the art of dating bing & grondahl www.jamiri.dk see also edit porcelain manufacturing companies in europe kai nielsen retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bing % 26 gr ndahl & oldid 740393238 categories ceramics manufacturers of denmarkroyal copenhagendanish porcelainpurveyors to the court of denmarkhidden categories articles with danish language external linkscommons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages danskdeutschnorsk bokm lsvenska edit links this page was last modified on 20 september 2016 at 19 58 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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