Information AboutFlora Danica |
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It was proposed by G. C. Oeder , then professor of botany at the Danish Royal Botanical Institution , in 1753 and was completed 123 years later, in 1883 . The complete work comprises 51 parts and 3 supplements, containing 3,240 copper engraved plates. In 1790 the Danish Crown Prince Frederik ordered a dinner set made decorated with exact copies of the plates of ''Flora Danica''. The dinner set was supposedly meant as a gift for Russia n Empress Catherine II . Catherine, however, never received it, as she died in 1796 . The dinner set is still in use for state occasions in the Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen . Copies of the set are sold by the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory . EXTERNAL LINKS
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