The motif of this 1993 Desirée annual cup WITHOUT saucer from The Porcelain Factory Desiree, also known as Désirée Denmark, Svend Jensen of Denmark, Old Copenhagen Blue is The Old Farmhouse which is found in the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale What the Old Man Does is Always Right The 1993 Hans Christian Andersen Annual Cup had the same motif as the 1993 Svend Jensen Christmas plate. So the 1993 Desiree Annual Cup and the 1993 Desiree Christmas plate are actaully a beautiful coffee set with plate and cup. Hans Christian Andersen starts his fairytale "What the Old Man Does is Always Right" with a description of a little cottage in the country. Svend Otto S., the well known Hans Christian Andersen illustrator, has catched the mood in the fairytale and painted the small cottage at wintertime with its lovely thatched roof, the small low windows, the old tree and the chained dog. 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.