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Royal Copenhagen launches a new collection of Easter eggs,
which speak the language of flowers.

The small eggs are made of the brightest white porcelain
and are decorated with white pansies, yellow crocus, blue anemones and pale mauve violets. The shades have been carefully coordinated to complement and work with each other and with last year’s collection.

The flower design itself is inspired by Royal Copenhagen’s first
Flora Danica service from 1790, a costly gift from the Danish Royal Family to Catherine the Great of Russia. The service was decorated using illustrations from the great botanical work Flora Danica, which catalogues the Danish kingdom’s flora in detail.

Royal Copenhagen’s creative team has spent countless hours admiring the original illustrations and carefully selecting the most beautiful spring flowers to be printed on the eggs for Easter 2007.

The language of flowers The idea that every flower has its own symbolism and secret meaning
has been around in Europe since the Middle Ages. The language of flowers was developed and refined a great deal in the 18th and 19th centuries in particular. Being able to express one’s feelings in a discreet and i ndirect manner was an ingenious expedient, not least in the middle-class
circles of the 19th century. The individual flowers can be interpreted as meaning many different things and there is no definitive key. However, there is no doubt that these cheerful new flowers speak of the arrival of spring.

The new Easter eggs will be a thoughtful and beautiful gift either in a box of one or of two eggs.

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For more details visit the Royal Copenhagen web site.