Each year the Desirée china factory distributes a Christmas plate with a motif from one of H. C. Andersen´s fairy tales.

The motifs are drawn by different artists such as Mads Stage, Edvard Eriksen, Gerhard Sausmark and Svend Otto Sausmark, the latter says, "I´ve grown up with folk tales and I would wish that I could make folk tales popular. You can draw and tell in many ways, but I´m a naturalist because I must have experienced and seen what I draw; trees, impressions and moods of nature, weather conditions and the movements of children and animals".

No Danish artist has like Svend Otto Sausmark in the last years pleased himself as illustrator of fairy tales, and when he fascinates grown ups and children with his pictures it is due to not least his own fascination of fairy tales.

Mother´s Day´s Plates

Whereas you get the motifs from one of H. C. Andersen´s fairy tales the motifs for Mother´s Day´s plates are from the world of children where it depicts situations most mothers would recognise.

Behind the motifs such as for instance "Good Night" from 1972, "On the Way Home" from 1973, "Daisies for Mother", "Small Friends" from 1977 and "Dreams" from 1978 is one of the best Danish illustrators, the artist Mads Stage.

He is a very varied artist who has also designed and decorated many domestic utensils. Mads Stage has got his inspiration and motifs from the Danish every day life and nature, but also from a lot of trips made around Europe due to his studies. The plates which have been made with a handmade form of plaster are painted in the famous blue under-glaze. Each year a new motif is carved in plaster and when
the year has gone the handmade form of plaster from which the plate has been made is destroyed.

Vestjysk Plattelager has a varied assortment of Desireè Christmas Plates, Cups of the Year and Mother´s Day´s Plates. Call or email us if you want further information.