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Chap. XIII,
VIEUX DANOIS PORCELAIN.
207
teresting objects to be purchased in this manufactory
are the copies of Thorvaldsen’s figures and bas-reliefs,
in white biscuit. Every six months an auction takes
place of those articles in which a slight flaw has been
detected, though these defects are invisible to the eyes
of the world in general, and you may then purchase for
the sum of five or six dollars figures which sell at the
price of ten or twelve at the manufactory.
In the bric-a-brac shops you may occasionally meet
with specimens of the Vieux Danois, now much
appreciated and sold at a high price. Many of the figures are
most original—market-women with their geese,
fishwives, &c.—and form a good contrast to the Watteau
and Boucher models of the early Dresden. The vases
are exquisite both in form and painting, and the earlier
artists seem to have greatly excelled even the Saxon
in raised flowers; I have never seen them equalled.
Some of the models have been copied from our own
Chelsea, probably from figures brought over from
England, either by Queen Louisa, or later by Caroline
Matilda.
The peasant girls of Zealand occupy themselves much
in the manufacture of a species of guipure lace, sewn
together with linen cut into crosses, stars, and various patterns:
collars and sleeves of this fabric may be procured at the
lingerie shops of Copenhagen; they are cheap enough,
and possess a cachet of their own.
In the Vogumager Gade is the shop of Jacobsen, who
works for the peasants of Amak; the brooches, pins,
and ornaments worn by the inhabitants of that island
may here be obtained at reasonable prices.
The print-shops of Copenhagen are essentially
national in their productions: views of the public
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