Royal Copenhagen and Bing & Grondahl Date Marks

Royal Copenhagen and Bing & Grondahl Dating Marks

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1. Dating by backstamp and painter's number before 1935


Pre-1900	1894-1900	Pre-1923 mark with Painter's number	1924-1934 with Painter's number

2. Dating by painter's number or initials


Painter's number 1893 -1928 (193).	Painter's initials lower case till about 1950 (ffx) with the addition of "x" simply a form of fecit = painted by	Painter's initials upper-case letters (a few appears before 1950) until present

In the Collector's Guide by Caroline & Nick Pope you will find a list of the known painters with number-signature and their working period at Royal Copenhagen. Also the data of the designing artist will be an important indication of possible age.

3. Dating by backstamp 1935 - 2002 Royal Copenhagen Denmark

	Bar above a letter in Royal or Copenhagen		Bar below a letter in Royal, Denmark or Copenhagen		A bar above two letters in Royal
R	1935	R	1950	RO	1985-1991
O	1936	O	1951	RY	1992-1999
Y	1937	Y	1952	RA	1999-2004
A	1938	A	1953	RL	2004-
L	1939	L	1954
C	1940	D	1955
O	1941	E	1956
P	1942	N	1957
E	1943	M	1958
N	1944	A	1959
H	1945	R	1960
A	1946	K	1961
G	1947	C	1962
E	1948	O	1963
N	1959	P	1964
		E	1965
		N	1966
		H	1967
		A	1968
		G	1969-1974
		E	1975-1979
		N	1980-1984

Bing & Grondahl Backstamps or factory marks 1853 to 2003.

It is possible to date pieces from Bing & Grondahl porcelain looking at the factory mark at the base. B & G, Bing & Grondahl refer to the founders: Fred. Vilh. Grøndahl (1819-1856), technical director; the brothers M.H. Bing (1819 - 1883) and J.H. Bing (1811 -1896) as economical directors. The three tower in the hallmark comes from the City Coat of Arms of Copenhagen.


1853-1894 B&G (Blue)	1895-1897 Danish China Works Copenhagen (Green) B&G (Blue)	1898 B&G Copenhagen Danish China Works (Green) B&G (Blue)	1899-1901 B&G Kjøbenhavn Danish China Works (Green) B&G (Blue)	1902-1914 B&G Kjøbenhavn, Made in Denmark (Green), B&G (Blue)

1914-1915 B&G Kjøbenhavn, Copenhagen (Green) B&G (Blue)	1915-1947 B&G Kjøbenhavn Danmark (Green) B&G (Blue)	1948-1951 B&G Kjøbenhavn Danmark B&G (Green)	1952 -1957 B&G Kjøbenhavn Made in Denmark (Green)	1958 -1962 B&G Kjøbenhavn Danmark Made in Denmark (Green)

1962-1970 B&G Kjøbenhavn Denmark (Made in Denmark) (Green)	1970-1983 3 towers B&G Copenhagen Porcelain Made in Denmark (Green)	1983 - 3 towers B&G Copenhagen Porcelain Bing & Grøndahl Denmark (Green or brown)	1983 - Still seen on plates, year figurines and collectibles and dinner service, which is continued as B&G after the merge with Royal Copenhagen in 1987

The above list is based primarily on Christmas Plates*. There might be an uncertainty of one year, when it change to a new back stamp. Also I found that at least on Christmas plates in the 1960s there seems to be some mix up of the back stamps. On figurines with less room for the stamp - the different partial markings make it even harder to date the pieces. Please email your comments, questions, suggestions and corrections.

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