Vintage Aap Noot Mies Soup Cups & Saucers – Ter Steege – 12-Piece Set

✅ Quick overview

A nostalgic Aap Noot Mies tableware set consisting of six soup cups with handles and six matching saucers. The design is inspired by the famous Dutch Hoogeveen reading board, which was used to teach generations of children how to read.

The colourful illustrations and familiar words such as aap, noot, mies, wim, zus, jet, teun and vuur make this set both highly decorative and practical to use.

📋 Product details

• Manufacturer: Ter Steege bv
• Licence / mark: © Wolters-Noordhoff
• Set: 12 pieces
• Contents: 6 soup cups + 6 saucers
• Material: ceramic
• Colour: white with multicoloured reading-board design
• Period: probably late 20th century

Soup cup:
• Height: 7 cm
• Diameter: 10.5 cm
• Width including handle: 13 cm

Saucer:
• Diameter: 17 cm

• Condition: vintage condition with signs of age and use consistent with its age.

🛠 About the product

The soup cups are decorated all around with illustrations from the classic Aap Noot Mies reading board. Their generous size makes them suitable for serving soup, broth or starters.

The 17 cm saucers can also be used separately as cake or dessert plates, making this an especially versatile vintage tableware set.

🏭 Manufacturer & history

The original reading board was developed as part of the reading method created by Dutch teacher M.B. Hoogeveen and became an icon of Dutch educational history.

This later tableware version was manufactured by Ter Steege bv and is marked on the base © Wolters-Noordhoff – Ter Steege bv.

✨ Special features

• Complete 12-piece set for 6 people
• Classic Dutch Aap Noot Mies reading-board design
• Six handled soup cups with matching saucers
• Saucers can also be used as cake or dessert plates
• Suitable for everyday use as well as collecting
• Decorative piece of Dutch school nostalgia

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