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Is this what you should give your mother?

Do you often have trouble figuring out, what to give your mother for Mother's Day? Then what better way to celebrate your mother than to give her a beautiful gift that commemorates her motherhood and daily reminds her of you? With Mother's Day plates she will have a permanent momento of you decorating the room that she will see everyday. The Mother's Day plates have cute motifs that are very decorative. A perfect gift for your mother or for yourself.

Cute Mother's Day plates from Désirée


Desiree Mother's Day Plates


































Désirée Svend Jensen also known as Old Copenhagen Blue issued a series of Mother's Day plates from 1970 to 1994. The motifs are made up of a boy and a girl in different childhood situations either by themselves or together. They make for a very sweet and decorative Mother's Day present for your loving mother or for your own room.


Bing & Grondahl Mother's Day Plates with Animals


Bing & Grondahl Mother's Day Plates

Bing & Grondahl issued the world's first Mother's Day plate in 1969 thus once again being the first like with the Christmas plates. The series continues to this day. The motifs of the B&G Mother's Day plates have always been of animals with their cubs and always the emphasis is on the mother nurturing the child.


Mother's Day Plates from Royal Copenhagen


Royal Copenhagen Mothers of the World

World renouned Royal Copenhagen also made its series of Mother's Day plates. These cute plates have their very own style making them quite unique and they have the theme "Mothers of the world". It includes an American mother, Danish mother, Greenlandic mother and even an Atlantian Mermaid mother. 


Royal Copenhagen Mother's Day Plates with Animals

Royal Copenhagen made more than one series of Mother's Day plates and this series is very special. This series the artist Sven Vestergaard adapted the motifs of older Royal Copenhagen figurines for the Mother's Day plates. They thus match up with these figurines as you can see from the examples in the image above.


Monthly figurine from Royal Copenhagen


Royal Copenhagen Mothly Figurine April Boy with Umbrella

Royal Copenhagen issued a series of sweet figurines of children that symbolise the individual months of the year. We have reached April and as always Princess Spring can be slightly unpredictable and give a bit of rain. So the young boy has remembered raincoat, boots and of course his trusted umbrella.


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