1987 Desiree Svend Jensen Christmas cup

Product Description

The motif of this 1987 Desirée annual cup
WITHOUT saucer 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 Thumbelina.
The 1987 Hans Christian Andersen Annual Cup
had the same motif as the 1987 Svend Jensen
Christmas plate. So the 1987 Desiree Annual
Cup and the 1987 Desiree Christmas plate
are actaully a beautiful coffee set with
plate and cup.
The fishes in the pond had just bitten off
the stalk of Thumbelina's water lily and
the leaf was floating in the stream down
the river.
Thumbelina is very happy that she got
away from the nasty toad and her son, to
whom she should have been married. The
white butterfly followed her down the
river and finally it ended at the edge of
the leaf. The motif of the Annual cup
shows Thumbelina who has tied the butterfly
to the leaf. Then she flows faster.
The designer of this Annual cup was
Svend Otto S., who has designed lots of
Desiree Annual cups and Christmas plates.
Désirée started the Annual cup series in
1982 and ended it in 2001. So 20 different
sets were made to complete a perfect coffee
set.
All motifs of the Hans Christian Andersen
annual cups from Désirée are inspired
by Hans Christian Andersen´s Fairy Tales.