Sven Vestergaard (1932) - Painter

Sven Vestergaard (1932) - Painter

Sven Vestergaard was hired at Royal Copenhagen in 1952. He started as an apprentice in the Department of overglaze, taking into account every single detail, which is seen in all his works.

In 1959 Sven Vestergaard needed to try something new and therefore switched to the advertising industry, where he made illustrations for various advertising agencies and newspapers.

In 1975, a vacancy arises as an illustrator at Royal Copenhagen's design department and Sven Vestergaard returned to his roots.

Since 1986, he designed the motifs for Royal Copenhagen's famous Christmas plates. Although he in 1989 started his own studio, he still designs Christmas plates and other things for Royal Copenhagen on a freelance basis.

Sven Vestergaard has also designed the Millennium figures, annual figures and mini-figurines for Royal Copenhagen.

Here you see some of the many Christmas plates drawn by Sven Vestergaard. 

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1. Delivery of items in stock
2. Delivery of customised/special ordered items and items not in stock

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Items in stock are normally shipped immediately (within 1-4 business days). When your payment has been confirmed by us, you will receive an order confirmation.

Should the time of delivery be delayed beyond normal (i.e. orders of large quantity) we will let you know.

Attention! By delivery time we mean the time from the order is confirmed to the order is shipped from DPH Trading. Not the time between the order is made to the time you receive the order.

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Customised/special ordered items and items not in stock are all items we do not currently store at our warehouse.

We are therefore depending of the various suppliers, dealers and collectors and the time of delivery is only an estimate.

In some situations it can be impossible for DPH Trading to predict the exact time of delivery if the items are specially ordered or customised.

Sometimes the items have to be produced from scratch. If the particular item is of significant age we may have to rely on private collectors who are willing to sell.

All the customised/special ordered items are delivered as close to the agreed delivery date as possible.

DPH Trading could take precautions for the delivery of entire or parts of an order. Part deliveries can occur. We always strive to inform you as quickly and efficiently as possible, should any deliveries change or be divided into separate deliveries.

In extraordinary situations negotiations can be made where the buyer are not responsible for the extra delivery cost in case of part deliveries.

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