Decorate your home with beautiful plates
At DPH Trading, we have a large selection of beautiful and decorative plates that can add a personal and charming touch to your home. With different motifs and designs, there is a plate to suit every taste and style - ranging from more traditional motifs such as flowers, landscapes, and Christmas motifs to more modern and abstract designs.
Plates are once again popular
Plates have had their ups and downs over time, but as people has begun decorating and furnishing their homes with personal and unique items, they have become popular again, especially in recent years! The antique, vintage, and retro have a special place in modern decor, which has led to increased interest in platters, both as collectibles and as decorative elements in interior design.
The increased focus on sustainability and environmental awareness is also significant when it comes to the return of platters. Many of the popular platters are purchased used and then reused in new and creative ways. For example, there is a trend to use platters in unconventional ways, such as as a base for potted plants or as an alternative wall decoration by hanging the platters in an uneven and informal group.
What can you use plates for?
Platters can be a beautiful and versatile decorative item that adds a personal touch to the home. You can place them around the home, for example on a shelf or table, where it will add a nice and decorative element to the room.
In addition to being a decorative item, platters can also have a practical function in the home. Platters can be used as bowls to store small items such as keys, jewelry or similar, that would otherwise be floating around.
You can also use platters as serving trays for snacks or drinks. - Platters can give an elegant and stylish presentation of food and drinks, while also being practical by collecting all the items on one surface.
Can one eat from their plates?
Many of your plates you can actually eat from! - Most of the blue painted plates are made using the underglaze method, which means they can be used as regular plates. This is especially true for the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates, Bing & Groendahl Christmas plates, Royal Copenhagen Mother's Day plates, and Bing & Groendahl Mother's Day plates, but also blue painted plates from Roerstrand, Gustavsberg, and many more.
Bring your plates to life!
Use them as pedestals or trays and serve everything from sushi and tapas to home-baked goods and fruit! - At DPH Trading, we specialize in transforming old and new plates into modern and unique pedestals.
We have both ready-made cake stands and fittings, so you can create your own, as well as plenty of plates you can buy if you don't already have any or need an extra one or two. - And remember, only your imagination sets the limits!
What plates are popular?
Danish Christmas plates are famous all over the world and are often used as Christmas or birthday gifts for acquaintances abroad or for collectors. Today, it has become very fashionable to use the blue plates as lunch plates or when serving delicious tapas, cheese and red wine.
Thousands of different dishes
Over the years, many thousands of different plates have been manufactured, such as:
Christmas plates
Commemorative Jubilee & Memorial plates
Artist Annual & Monthly plates
Mother's Day plates
Father's Day plates
Fairytale and Myth plates
And many, many more, including
Plaquettes: The small plates
What is a plaquette? Actually, a plaquette is just a mini plate. - However, that doesn't make them any less decorative! They are available with many different motifs, including Christmas motifs, flower motifs, and zodiac motifs.
Plaquettes are very versatile, both for decoration and for table setting, for example as a tea bag tray, egg cup tray, butter dish, etc.
Which plates have value?
We buy records every day, but we also have to say that we have thousands of plates in stock. There are a lot of plates that we currently do not buy, as we already have enough in stock. This applies, for example, to most plates produced in the 70s and 80s, as these are typically made in relatively large quantities, and therefore we already have enough of these in stock.
You can find our sales prices (values) for most types of plates here on the website. Note that this is not the same as purchase prices, i.e. the amount you will be offered if you wish to sell to us. We do not disclose our purchase prices on the website, as these can vary greatly depending on supply, demand and our inventory situation.
See examples of our sales prices:
How to sell your plates
If you wish to sell, you are more than welcome to contact us and learn more.
Plate Accessories
There are many options if you want to decorate your home with plates. Many people today have the plates lying as beautiful trays for keys, jewelry, etc., but you can also put them in stands so they can beautifully adorn shelves.
If you want your plates to hang on the wall, you can buy a plate hanger, which essentially functions as a kind of holder that allows you to put the plate on a nail or screw.