Lyngby Denmark

It took me a few hours of searching around the Internet yesterday and today to find and piece together some information on Lyngby Denmark - who produced some amazing patterns in the 1960s. The part dinner set by Lyngby in the Auction Watch this week has been my only purchase in the past 2 days...but its so lovely. A plain, bright white porcelain beautifully subtle greys and a steel blue, combined with an outstanding but simple design of droplets defining the forms. The simplest patterns are often the best.

The pattern is Danild 66, and sometimes referred to as Draber (in English literally Drops Of) and it was produced in the late 1950's...it was part of a very popular range called Danild, Dan-ild, or Dan-fire....each numbered Danild <xy>

Lyngby Denmark, Danild 66

Incidentaly - Lyngby also produced a hugely popular series of ribbed porcelain vases which have become collectors items. There are also a huge amount of  figurines and more traditional porcelain patterns by Lyngby which aren't really my thing.

Lyngby Ribbed Porcelain Vases c 1960 - courtesy Laurtiz.com

Lyngby Porcelain opened in 1936 in Lyngby, a picturesque town just north of Copenhagen. Neils Holst and Christian Knudsen were its original founders, and it was a major supplier of dinnerware to the Danish market from the 1950s until its closure in 1969, after which it was soon demolished.

At its peak it had over 500 workers -which gives us an idea of the volume of work that they must have produced. Axel Bruel worked there as a designer at its peak as well.

Lyngby Danild 66 Soup Cup - Coupe

Lyngby Danild 66 - Candleholders

Lyngby Danild 66 Salt & Pepper

Lyngby Danild 66 Plates - Aren't those grey tones just so subtle and perfect!

Lyngby Danild 66 Side Handled Casserole

There were quite a large number of different backstamps used during the years, and I was a bit confused with the dinner set as it had a completely different stamp - but it clicked eventually - the stamp on part of the dinnerware I purchased is for when Lyngby was called Niels Holst & Son A/S. 

So these are the 2 differing stamps on the pieces I purchased...all of the others I have seen have the word Lyngby in them which makes identification a bit easier at least.

Lyngby Denmark stamp c 1960

Lyngby Stamp pre c1950 Niels Holst & Son A/S.