This hexagonal porcelain dish was made by Royal Copenhagen in the early twentieth century, most likely between about 1900 and 1922. A basket-weave relief runs along the scalloped rim, a moulded border associated with the factory's Golden Basket tableware, and a fine gilt line follows both the outer edge and the inner shoulder of the shallow well.
The decoration is restrained: a single sprig with dark green-grey leaves and small pale blossoms sits in the middle of a warm ivory glaze. The woven rim and the softly fluted sides give the shape a quiet rhythm that shows best in raking light, which is why the gilt edge and the relief are worth a close look.
The underside carries the blue three-wave mark, a green stamp reading Royal Copenhagen Denmark with the crown between two dots, and hand-written initials, S.Th., most likely those of the decorator. The stamp has none of the year-code dots or lines the factory began using in 1935, and mark charts place this style of stamp in the first two decades of the century.
A single dish rather than part of a service, it suits a sideboard or shelf as a decorative piece, or the table as a shallow serving dish for sweets and small bites.
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