1984 Desiree Svend Jensen Christmas plate, cake plate

Product Description

The motif of this 1984 Desiree Christmas
plate from the Porcelain Factory Desiree,
also known as Désirée Denmark, Svend Jensen
of Denmark, Old Copenhagen Blue is found in
the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale The
Nightingale.
The fairytale named "The Nightingale" by
Hans Christian Andersen has been the
inspiration for the 1984 Christmas plate.
The small nightingale lives in some
branches in trees along the seacoast of
China. Every night, when the poor fisherman
is sitting in his dinghy and is working
with his net, he has to take a break and
listen to the song from The Nightingale.
Because of its song The Nightingale becomes
famous and the emperor wants to hear it
sing. Even through the emperor wants The
Nightingale to stay it will not leave the
branches over the sea.
The artist behind this Christmas plate was
Sven Otto S.
Désirée started the Christmas plate series
in 1970 and ended it in 2002.
All motifs of the Hans Christian Andersen
Christmas plates from Désirée were inspired
by Hans Christian Andersen´s Fairy Tales