Royal Copenhagen jug from the Frederiksborg lottery
Height 27 cm.
The jug is signed with Royal Copenhagen's 3 waves and the lottery's trademark, an angel in black with drawing tools.
The jug is in super condition but have a repaired chip on the foot.
The Frederiksborg Lottery, or the Lottery of Domestic Arts and Crafts to Promote the Collaboration between Arts and Crafts as it was properly called, was a lottery that was to raise money for the reconstruction of the burnt down Frederiksborg Castle.
In 1859 Frederiksborg Castle is burned down on a evening in december and only Christian d.4's church room is left. Frederik d.7 had only a few years before began to use the castle again as its primary residence and therefore a range of the royal families belongings had been brought to the castle and was lost in the fire.
Both the danish Rigsdag(Parlament) and the King himself raised huge sums to the castle's reconstruction, but it was decided to carry out a lottery to raise more funds.
For this lottery, the biggest artists and factories of the time attended with prizes.
Royal Copenhagen donated many single items and whole dinnerware sets.
In the end, C.J. Jacobsen(founder of the Carlsberg Brewery), paid for the reconstruction.
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