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Royal Copenhagen Angel With Violin Ornament
Royal Copenhagen Angel With Violin Ornament
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Item# 1066065
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The Royal Copenhagen Christmas Angel with Violin is part of the five-angel orchestra, originally launched in 1955 in pure white porcelain. Royal Copenhagen now re-introduces the figurines in fading blue skirts and gold details. The ornament can be used standing or hanging from the string that comes with it.

Dated Ornament Tags

Add, or upgrade the dated ornament tag! Rhodium silver plated or gold plated ornament tags are an excellent way to add a date for non dated ornaments, or to upgrade an existing ornament tag. Fits all of our ornaments. Limited quantity available.

Silver Ornament Tag 2024
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Item# 25299
Size: H: 3/4" W: 5/8"

Golden Ornament Tag 2024
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Item# 25301
Size: H: 3/4" W: 5/8"


 

A passion for blue

Symbolising fidelity and secrecy, blue is a colour for which artists in the past would pay considerable sums. It is often the subject of writing. And it is also the colour in which the Royal Copenhagen expert painters excel.

Blue has innumerable shades and nuances. The truest and purest blue, cobalt, is used for decorating the classic Royal Copenhagen blue fluted service. Thousands of years before this, from as far back as 2600 BC, Egyptian and various other civilisations used cobalt to create intensely blue colour for glassware, glazing and ceramics.

Almost 7000 years ago, the Egyptians would crush the blue stone Lapiz Lazuli into a fine powder to use as pigment for eye makeup and murals on walls. Much later, medieval painters learned to use the stone's colour to manufacture paint, attaining the colour ultramarine.

"..."I have found it at last. This is the true blue. Oh, how light it makes one. Oh, it is as fresh as a breeze, as deep as a deep secret, as full as I say not what." With trembling hands she held the jar to her bosom..."

Quoting old Lady Helena's exclamation upon being presented with a blue-painted Chinese jar. Quote is from "The Young Man with the Carnation" from Winter's Tales by Isak Dinesen (the pen name of the Danish novelist Karen Blixen)

Royal Copenhagen's blue pigment is called cobalt zinc silicate and it is the cobalt that provides the distinctive blueness. In its infancy, Royal Copenhagen obtained their cobalt from Norwegian 'Blaafarvevaerket', the 'blue colour factory' a company that was responsible for between 70 and 80 percent of all global cobalt production throughout the 19th century.

 

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