This exquisite jubilee plate is adorned with a monogram of King Christian IX of Denmark and his wife Queen Louise. The souvenir was manufactured in Denmark in 1892 and was presented to the royal couple to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
The plate was transferred into GAUK RK ‘Alupka Museum-Preserve’ from Sevastopol Art Gallery in 1958. In 1992 it became part of a newly opened exhibition of Massandra Palace.

Princess Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar, known as Maria Feodorovna after her marriage to Emperor Alexander III of Russia, was a daughter of King Christian IX of the House of Glücksburg (reigned 1863-1906) and Queen Louise of Hesse-Kassel. Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, was Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna’s firstborn son. Christian IX’s family ties with almost all of Europe’s royal houses earned him the sobriquet “father-in-law of Europe”, and even today most European sovereigns are his direct descendants.

The plate was manufactured in 1892 at the “Royal Copenhagen” Porcelain Factory in 1892. The factory, founded by a Danish chemist and mineralogist Frantz Heinrich Müller (1738-1820), became the sixth royal porcelain manufacturer to open in Europe.
The emblem on the plate shows a royal monogram of King Christian IX and Queen Louise. The initial letters of the royal couple’s names are intertwined and placed under a crown.

Today ‘Royal Copenhagen’ is one of the most important trademarks of Denmark and the rest of Scandinavia and a world’s leading brand. “Flora Danica”, a dinner service commissioned by King Frederick VI intended as a gift to Empress Catherine the Great, became one of the factory’s best-known products.

The porcelain jubilee plate from Alupka museum is round in shape and has a flat bottom. It is hand-decorated in cobalt blue, which is a trademark of ‘Royal Copenhagen’.