Royal Copenhagen Bing & Grondahl Collectible Christmas Plates 1961 through1981

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Royal Copenhagen Bing & Grondahl Jule After Christmas Plates Denmark 1961 - 1981
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Bing & Grondahl 1961 Winter Harmony Christmas Plate - designed by Kjeld Bonfils, has the titleWinter Harmony.
Bing & Grondahl's Christmas plate from 1961 depicts one of the small wild animals in Denmark, the squirrel. The squirrel is eating a pine cone from the tree in which it sits. This motif is taken from the old nursery rhyme, which begins " Tiny squirrel sat so happily on her bench".
The church shown in the background is Kundby church near Holbæk on Zealand, a typical
Danish country church.
Bing & Grondahl Jule After Plate 1962 Winter Night
1962 Bing & Grondahl Christmas Plate designed by Kjeld Bonfils titled "Winter Night.
Bing & Grondahl's Christmas Plate from 1962 depicts one of Denmark's many ancient monuments. The monument is shown in a starry winter night.
Bing & Grondahl Jule After 1966  Home for Christmas
1966 Bing & Grondahl Christmas plate, designed by Henry Thelander, and the title
Home for Christmas, depicts a typical Danish scenery of its time. Small fishing boats heading for harbor on Christmas eve. In keeping with tradition, the small fishing boats are decorated with
little Christmas trees in the top of each mast, the lanterns are lit, and the Christmas star is shining.
Bing & Grondahl Jule After 1969 Christmas Guests Arriving
1969 Bing & Grondahl Christmas plate, designed by Henry Thelander, depicts Christmas guests arriving at the vicarage in a slay on Christmas eve.
The motif of the plate is a bit nostalgic because half- timbered houses probably with a thatched roof under the snow and guests arriving in a slay was no longer a common sight in Denmark in 1969. Denmark still have some of these houses in the country, but they are no longer common.
Bing Grondahl Jule After 1970
Pheasants at Christmas
1970 Bing & Grondahl Christmas plate, designed by Henry Thelander, has the title
Pheasants at Christmas. 1970 Bing & Grondahl Christmas plate depicts one of the most common wild birds in Denmark,the pheasant. The birds are seen in a winter clad countryside. In the
backround we see a typical Danish farm house.
Bing & Grondahl Jules After 1971  Christmas at Home
1971 Bing & Grondahl Christmas plate designed by Henry Thelander, has the title Christmas at home, and it depicts the family gathered for Christmas. The Mother and baby are at the piano accompanying the rest of the family, who go around the Christmas tree, singing the traditional Christmas carols. The Christmas tree is decorated with living candles and a star at the top, as is almost all Danish Christmas trees.
Bing & Grondahl Jule After 1972  Christmas in Greenland
1972 Bing & Grondahl Christmas plate, designed by Henry Thelander, depicts 2 villagers on their dog sleigh on their way home to their village for Christmas. Greenland, which is part of the Danish Kingdom, has home rule. Greenland is the world's largest island, with very few inhabitants, only app. 56.000, living in the coastal areas of Greenland. Part of Greenland, as for instance Thule, lies north of the Arctic Circle, and has arctic nights for 4 months every year.  The length of the day during winter varies as to which part of Greenland we are talking about, but in every place in Greenland, days are short in winter.
Bing & Grondahl Jule After 1973
Country Christmas
1973 Bing & Grondahl Christmas titled Country Christmas, designed by Henry Thelander sends our memory back to the childhood days send our memory back to earlier days, the Christmas of our childhood. The motif of the plate is the family visit in a farmhouse in the half- thatched
country house. In front of the house, the fur tree is decorated with lights as it is still a tradition in Denmark to brighten the dark time of year. The guests bringing Christmas presents arrive in a snow covered landscape and they are received in the door by their family.
Bing & Grondahl Jule After 1974
Christmas in the Village
1974 Bing & Grondahl Christmas plate depicts, as the title of the plate tells, Christmas in the Village. The plate was designed by Henry Thelander. Christmas begins in the afternoon of December 24th, when the villagers arrive at the village church to hear the Christmas service. In the foreground of the plate we see the village pond with two mute swans, one of the birds which stay in Denmark during wintertime. The mute swan was elected national bird of Denmark in 1984.
Bing & Grondahl Jule After 1975 Old Water Mill
1975 Bing & Grondahl Christmas plate, designed by Henry Thelander, depicts an old water mill at Christmas time, and its title is The Old Water Mill. The first water mills date back to around the 12th century, and they were, prior to the introduction of the steam engine, the most important source of energy in Denmark.
Bing & Grondahl Jule After 1976 Christmas Welcome
1976 Bing & Grondahl Christmas plate, designed by Henry Thelander, has the title Christmas
Welcome. The plate depicts a mother and her children greeting the father coming home from
fishing on Christmas eve.
The plate shows a typical Danish village with half-thatched houses and as a central part of the village, the village church. The motif is typically Danish as Denmark, because of its wide coastal areas has been a big fishing nation.
Bing & Grondahl Jule After 1977 Copenhagen Christmas
1977 Bing & Grondahl Christmas plate designed by Henry Thelander, depicts the "Julenisse",
looking out a skylight at the Christmas tree in the neighboring house. The plate has the title Copenhagen Christmas.
This motif is from Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. We see the Round Tower in the
background. This tower was designed by Hans van Steenwinckel Jr. for king Christian IV, and
it was built 1637-1642, as the first part of the Trinity complex.  At the top of the tower, which is 34.8 m above street level, is an observatory.  This building is still today visited by numerous Danish as well as foreign tourists every year.
Bing & Grondahl Jule After 1978 A Christmas Tale
1978 Bing & Grondahl Christmas plate designed by Henry Thelander, has the title A Christmas Tale, and it depicts a grandmother reading a Christmas tale to her grandchildren. In the background we see the Christmas tree decorated with living candles and braided heart decorations. This is still the way many Danish Christmas trees are decorated.
1979 Bing & Grondahl Christmas plate, designed by Henry Thelander,depicts almost every Dane's dreams, white Christmas, which is also the title of the plate. The scene is a nostalgic retrospect of Christmas in the old days in a Danish village.
On one side of the street we find the village baker and on the other the village grocer. The children of the village are looking through the window at the grocery store's Christmas display, and a family are on their way home from Christmas shopping. In the background we see one of Denmark's numerous windmills.
Bing & Grondahl Jule After 1980 Christmas in the Woods
1980 Bing & Grondahl Christmas plate designed by Henry Thelander, depicts the animals of the Danish forests near a feeder at Christmas time. The title of the plate is Christmas in the Woods.
Denmark is often covered in ice and snow in winter and its is therefore a tradition to feed the wild animals because it is difficult for them to find food. The plate depicts the deer, which is one of the most common wild animals in Denmark, and the population is increasing.
1981 Bing & Grondahl Christmas Peace, designed by Henry Thelander, depicts, like the plate
from 1980, feeding of wild animals at winter time. In this instance, the resident birds' are fed with sheaves of grain by a little girl. The title of the plate is Christmas Peace.
As is the case with large animals, it is difficult for the birds in the gardens to find food in the winter, and it is therefore tradition to feed them either with sheafs of grain or with grain in a little bird table.
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