Collecting plate
Christmas plate 1927, KPM Berlin
Christmas plate, Royal Copenhagen 1917
The plates of a special group of motifs that porcelain manufacturers have brought onto the market in often limited numbers since around 1900 are called collectors' plates .
The so-called Christmas plates, which are decorated every year with a certain subject and bear the respective year , are particularly widespread . In addition to Christmas , plate series are also available for other occasions throughout the year, such as Easter or Mother's Day . All possible series of motifs, some of which were designed by well-known artists such as Bjørn Wiinblad , for example seasons, plants, flowers and animals, are also common.
Collection plates are particularly suitable as wall decorations or can be presented next to each other on plate shelves . Old collecting plates are now also valuable as antiques .
The Bradford Collecting Plate Museum in Rödermark near Frankfurt am Main exhibits porcelain plates from over 110 years of collecting plate history. Among them is the first limited collector's plate Behind the iced window of the Bing & Grøndahl manufactory from 1895.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Collection plate. In: The large art dictionary by PW Hartmann. Retrieved July 1, 2014 .
- ↑ John R. MacArthur (Ed.): The Bradford Book of Collectibles. Niles / Il. 1988. (German edition) ISBN 3980161609 / ISBN 3980161617