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Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates are some of the most famous Christmas plates and collectibles in the world.

Here on the page, you can find virtually all editions from 1908 to 2024 in stock, as well as a complete overview of all Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates.

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Shepherd with his herd 1957, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -43%
Shepherd with his herd 1957, Royal ...
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Item no: RX1957 Year: 1957 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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The Royal Oak near Jaegerspris (approx. 1400 years old) 1967, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -61%
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Item no: RX1967 Year: 1967 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Vibaek Mill 1976, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -34%
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Item no: RX1976 Year: 1976 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Choosing the Christmas Tree 1979, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Choosing the Christmas Tree 1979, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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Item no: RX1979 Year: 1979 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Bringing Home the 
Christmas Tree 1980, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Bringing Home the 
Christmas Tree 1980, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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Bringing Home the Christmas Tree 19...
USD 14.45
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Item no: RX1980 Year: 1980 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Merry Christmas 1983, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Merry Christmas 1983, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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Merry Christmas 1983, Royal Copen...
USD 9.07
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Item no: RX1983 Year: 1983 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Christmas Shopping 1994, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Christmas Shopping 1994, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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Item no: RX1994 Year: 1994 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Hans Christian Andersen 2014, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Hans Christian Andersen 2014, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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Hans Christian Andersen 2014, R...
USD 72.25
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Item no: RX2014 Year: 2014 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Winter in the Garden, 2021 Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Winter in the Garden, 2021 Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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Winter in the Garden, 2021 Roy...
USD 77.63
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Item no: RX2021 Year: 2021 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Snow covered landscape with spruce, sledge and church 1915, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -28%
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Item no: RX1915 Year: 1915 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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The Virgin Mary with Baby Jesus 1920, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
The Virgin Mary with Baby Jesus 1920, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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Item no: RX1920 Year: 1920 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Old houses on the town square 1921, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Old houses on the town square 1921, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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USD 33.72
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Item no: RX1921 Year: 1921 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Schooner at sea Christmas night 1924, Royal Copenhagen Christmas platee -37%
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Item no: RX1924 Year: 1924 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Old warehouses on Canal in Copenhagen 1926, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -25%
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Item no: RX1926 Year: 1926 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Helmsman on Christmas night 1927, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -38%
Helmsman on Christmas night 19...
USD 60.10
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Item no: RX1927 Year: 1927 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Fishing vessels on their way 
to harbour 1930, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -32%
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USD 57.66
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Item no: RX1930 Year: 1930 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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The ferry Odin outside Nyborg harbour 1933, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -29%
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USD 60.10
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Item no: RX1933 Year: 1933 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Copenhagen deer park with herimitage 1934, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -23%
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USD 103.11
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Item no: RX1934 Year: 1934 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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The cathedral in Roskilde 1936, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -41%
The cathedral in Roskilde 1936, Ro...
USD 181.50
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Item no: RX1936 Year: 1936 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Shopping street in Copenhagen 1937, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -55%
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USD 169.35
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Item no: RX1937 Year: 1937 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Shepherd in a desert landscape 1940, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -14%
Shepherd in a desert landscape 1940, R...
USD 363.62
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Item no: RX1940 Year: 1940 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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The Flight to Egypt 1943, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -22%
The Flight to Egypt 1943, Royal Copen...
USD 424.29
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Item no: RX1943 Year: 1943 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Frederiksborg Castle in Hilleroed 1953, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -55%
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USD 45.51
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Item no: RX1953 Year: 1953 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Scenery from Greenland 1958, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -27%
Scenery from Greenland 1958, R...
USD 96.54
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Item no: RX1958 Year: 1958 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Christmas Vacation 1986, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Christmas Vacation 1986, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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Christmas Vacation 1986, Royal Copen...
USD 30.23
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Item no: RX1986 Year: 1986 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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The Old Skating Pond 1989, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
The Old Skating Pond 1989, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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The Old Skating Pond 1989, Royal ...
USD 35.11
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Item no: RX1989 Year: 1989 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Christmas at the Manor House 1995, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Christmas at the Manor House 1995, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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USD 72.25
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Item no: RX1995 Year: 1995 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Lighting the Street Lamps 1996, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Lighting the Street Lamps 1996, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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Lighting the Street Lamps 1996, Roya...
USD 19.55
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Item no: RX1996 Year: 1996 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Welcome Home 1998, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Welcome Home 1998, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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Welcome Home 1998, Royal Copen...
USD 44.12
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Item no: RX1998 Year: 1998 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Watching the Birds 2001, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Watching the Birds 2001, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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Watching the Birds 2001, Royal Copen...
USD 32.95
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Item no: RX2001 Year: 2001 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Christmas Train 2004, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -22%
Christmas Train 2004, Royal Copen...
USD 55.71
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Item no: RX2004 Year: 2004 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Christmas at Amagertorv 2009, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Christmas at Amagertorv 2009, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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USD 52.56
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Item no: RX2009 Year: 2009 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Copenhagen Harbour (The Little Mermaid) 2013, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Copenhagen Harbour (The Little Mermaid) 2013, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Copenhagen Harbour (The Little...
USD 88.79
Item no: RX2013 Year: 2013 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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By the lakes 2017, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
By the lakes 2017, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
By the lakes 2017, Royal Copenhage...
USD 96.47
Item no: RX2017 Year: 2017 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Wooden fence with sheaf of corn 1911, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -23%
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USD 84.40
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Item no: RX1911 Year: 1911 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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The tower and spire on the Marble Church in Copenhagen 1913, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -29%
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Item no: RX1913 Year: 1913 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Sparrows in a tree in front of a lit church window 1914, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -13%
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Item no: RX1914 Year: 1914 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Angel and shepherd 1916, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -29%
Angel and shepherd 1916, Royal Copen...
USD 42.37
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Item no: RX1916 Year: 1916 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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The Church of Our Saviour 1917, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -47%
The Church of Our Saviour 1917, Roy...
USD 35.81
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Item no: RX1917 Year: 1917 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Shepherds in a meadow on Christmas night 1918, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Shepherds in a meadow on Christmas night 1918, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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USD 40.70
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Item no: RX1918 Year: 1918 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Birds in snow covered garden 1919, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -39%
Birds in snow covered garden 19...
USD 35.81
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Item no: RX1919 Year: 1919 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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The Tower of the Grundtvig Church 1929, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -36%
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USD 54.52
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Item no: RX1929 Year: 1929 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Children by the Christmas tree 1931, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -38%
Children by the Christmas tree 193...
USD 42.37
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Item no: RX1931 Year: 1931 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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The statue of King Frederik VI 1932, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -38%
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USD 60.10
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Item no: RX1932 Year: 1932 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Noerre Herlev church,
 Frederiksborg amt 1941, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -28%
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USD 351.48
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Item no: RX1941 Year: 1941 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Bell-frame on church roof 1942, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -7%
Bell-frame on church roof 1942, Royal C...
USD 509.87
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Item no: RX1942 Year: 1942 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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The church in Farum 1946, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -23%
The church in Farum 1946, Royal Copen...
USD 145.06
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Item no: RX1946 Year: 1946 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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The good shepherd 1947, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -28%
The good shepherd 1947, Royal Copen...
USD 217.94
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Item no: RX1947 Year: 1947 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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The church in Noddebo,
 Frederiksborg county 1948, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
The church in Noddebo,
 Frederiksborg county 1948, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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USD 72.25
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Item no: RX1948 Year: 1948 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Sledge in 
snowy landscape 1964, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -57%
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Item no: RX1964 Year: 1964 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Geese in snowcovered courtyard 1969, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Geese in snowcovered courtyard 1969, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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Item no: RX1969 Year: 1969 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Feast of Saint Lucy 1991, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Feast of Saint Lucy 1991, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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Feast of Saint Lucy 1991, Royal Copen...
USD 35.11
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Item no: RX1991 Year: 1991 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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1999 Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate Italian
1999 Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate Italian
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1999 Royal Copenhagen Chris...
USD 27.78
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Item no: RX1999-I Year: 1999 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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The Forest in Winter 2002, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate -17%
The Forest in Winter 2002, Royal Copen...
USD 72.25
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Item no: RX2002 Year: 2002 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Horn's Reef 2012, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Horn's Reef 2012, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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USD 60.10
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Item no: RX2012 Year: 2012 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Christmas anticipation, 2024 Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Christmas anticipation, 2024 Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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USD 104.85
Item no: RX2024 Year: 2024 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Frederiksborg Castle, 2022 Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Frederiksborg Castle, 2022 Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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Item no: RX2022 Year: 2022 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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1911 Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate, small
1911 Royal Copenhagen Chris...
Item no: RX1911-S Year: 1911 Measurement: Ø: 16 cm
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Ice skating in Copenhagen 2016, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Ice skating in Copenhagen 2016, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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Item no: RX2016 Year: 2016 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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Angel and Christmas Rose, 1945 Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
Angel and Christmas Rose, 1945 Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate
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Item no: RX1945 Year: 1945 Measurement: Ø: 18 cm
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With a well-known spruce edge

For more than a century, Royal Copenhagen has created magical Christmas plates that spread Christmas spirit and coziness in homes around the world. Each Christmas plate is a small work of art in itself, hand-painted and decorated by skilled artists with beautiful motifs, from snowy landscapes and wintry scenes to Christmas trees and festive traditions - each motif tells a unique story and evokes memories of cozy Christmas moments!

The classic Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates are characterized by the blue and white colors and are often associated with the spruce edge that became a permanent part of Royal Copenhagen's Christmas plate's design in 1941. However, Royal Copenhagen has also released other series of Christmas plates, including Peter's Christmas, the Children's Christmas, and Christmas in Denmark Xmas Plates.

The classic blue Christmas plates from Royal Copenhagen are still being released to this day and can be found among their annual Blue Collectibles collections.

Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates 1908-2023

The story of Royal Copenhagen's Christmas plates

Christmas Plate Royal Copenhagen

The first Royal Copenhagen Christmas wall plate was issued in a tiny edition in 1908 to test the interest. - This was 13 years after the world's first porcelain Christmas plate was produced by Bing & Groendahl. The Christmas plate was warmly received and since then a Christmas plate have continuously been produced every year.

Royal Copenhagen, then known as the Royal Porcelain Factory, which was owned by Philip Schou from 1882, had engaged Adolph Clement, who was a very skilled chemist, and architect Arnold Krogh as director in 1883 and 1885, respectively. Together, these two developed the underglaze technique in such a way that it was possible to produce Royal Copenhagen's first Christmas plate in the characteristic blue shades in 1908.

The spruce edge, as we know it from Christmas plates today, have been the same on all of the decorative Christmas wall plates since 1941, but experiments with edges have been done much earlier.

Already on the Christmas plate from 1909, there is an edge consisting of summer flowers and angels. In 1911, we have a real spruce branches with cones and in 1915 we see the edge as it looks today.

Then there were experiments with different edges and throughout the 1920s and 1930s the edge took more and more shape, until in 1941 it became the one we know today.

Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate 1941In the 1960's and 1970's there were Royal Christmas wall plates in almost every Danish home, either as decoration on the walls or as savings in the attic. Unfortunately the interest in the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates decreased in the following years and these years does not have the same high commercial value as some of the others.

In 1987 the Royal Porcelain Factory merged with Bing & Grondahl Porcelain Factory and thus arose the name Royal Copenhagen in Denmark. Abroad the Royal Danish Christmas wall plates have always been known as Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates.

Among the latest Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates, which like previous plates attempt to describe the Danish Christmas and holiday spirit, is the 2008 Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate, released in the 100th year since the release of Royal Copenhagen's first Christmas plate in 1908. The 2008 Christmas plate, designed by Sven Vestergaard, connects back to the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate of 1908, as the radiance seen behind Mary with the child on the 1908 plate is repeated in the 2008 Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate, where Sven Vestergaard has chosen to place the radiance behind Copenhagen's towers.

Royal Copenhagen juleplatte og julekop 2016

How are the Christmas plates used today?

The Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates can still be used in many ways! In addition to being decorative on the wall, as they always have been, they have acquired some more uses.

Today the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates are also used as dishes for Christmas parties, dessert plates for rice pudding or cake plates for your festivities. - If you cover your Christmas table with a white, red or blue tablecloth the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates fit beautifully. Along with white porcelain, they provide a beautiful contrast to the main tableware and is a beautiful reminder of tradition and Christmas through the ages, which has been a central part of our consciousness around Christmas.

In combination with the Royal Copenhagen Christmas cups, you can set a unique coffee table. In 1979 Royal Copenhagen started the tradition of making a Christmas cup and saucer with the same motif as the Christmas plate of the year. It gives you the possibility of setting a coffee table with the Royal Copenhagen Christmas Service, together with a coffee pot, sugar bowl, creamer and candlesticks.

Can the Christmas plates be used for serving food?

The blue Danish Christmas plates are decorated under the glazing, which means that they can be used for serving food and to eat from. The plates are perfect decorations for both wall and table and with these old blue Christmas plates you can be sure to set a Christmas table that will amaze and amuse your friends.

If you serve on the plate the motif will slowly emerge as the food is eaten revealing the wonderful image below in a slow fashion piece by piece giving the whole seance and extra dimension. This is especially true, if you have a set of plates with different images on them. Then every guest will have his or her own unique motif, when finished eating and if combined with the Christmas cups and saucers the whole thing could get an extra dimension.

If games are to be played, serving the food directly on the plate with the hidden motif, without matching it to the cup and saucer, provides a fun way to pair up in groups. Each person with a plate motif can be matched with someone who has the corresponding cup motif.

Can Christmas plates go in the dishwasher?

Yes, Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates are underglaze decorated and therefore suitable for the dishwasher. This applies to all the blue painted Danish Christmas plates. However, foreign Christmas plates with color prints will over time wear off the color prints.

Royal Copenhagen juleplatter og julekopper - Smukt Royal Copenhagen julestel

Produced and destroyed

Royal Copenhagen's first Christmas plate was only produced in 1908, and the tradition of only producing the Christmas plate in the year of its release has been followed ever since. The mould for each year's Christmas plate is destroyed, when the year comes to an end, and the plate can never be reproduced. This fact has made Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates from some years scarce, and especially the 1908 Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate, which was produced in a very limited number as Royal Copenhagen had no way of anticipating the success of the Christmas plate, is in very high demand by collectors all over the world.

The Royal Copenhagen 1908 Christmas plate is titled Madonna with Child and the motif is of the Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus. Christian Thomsen designed this first Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate in the well known blue nuances. The following years, Royal Copenhagen engaged a number of very talented designers to add their contribution to the motif of the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate.

At the beginning the designers of the Christmas plates varied from year to year, but one of the designers among the first Christmas plates is Oluf Jensen. Since the mid-1960's Kaj Lange was a steady designer of the blue Christmas plates. In 1986, Sven Vestergaard took over and he designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates until 2015. Since then Allan Therkelsen has designed the Christmas plates.

Overview of the different designers of the Christmas plates:

Christian Thomsen has designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate 1908, 1910 and 1912

Stephan Ussing has designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate 1909

Oluf Jensen has designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate 1911, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1923, 1925, 1929, 1932 and 1934

Arthur Boesen has designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate 1913 and 1914

Arnold Krog has designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate 1915

Richard Bøcher has designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate 1916, 1926, 1936, 1945 and 1951

Gotfred Rode has designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate 1920, 1928 and 1931

Ellinor Selchau has designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate 1922

Chr. Benjamin-Olsen has designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate 1924, 1927, 1930, 1933 and 1935

Niels Thorsson (Nils Thorson) has designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate 1937, 1942, 1943 and 1946

Herne Nielsen has designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate 1938

Sv. Nicolai Nielsen has designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate 1939

Kaj Lange has designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate 1940, 1947, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 ,1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1985

Theodor Kjølner has designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate 1941, 1948 and 1953

Viggo Olsen has designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate 1944 and 1950

Hans Henrik Hansen has designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate 1949, 1957, 1958, 1959 and 1960

Sven Vestergaard has designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate 1976, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015

Allan Therkelsen has designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Royal Copenhagen Juleplatter

Christmas plates, what are they worth?

The above question is often asked and the answer is that it depends on which Christmas plates are being referred to. Basically, the most sought-after and valuable Christmas plates are Royal Copenhagen's, as you can see on this page, but it is still crucial which vintages are being discussed. The plates that we are looking for are Royal Copenhagen's very first Christmas plate from 1908 and especially the vintages from World War II, which are rarer and therefore more sought after in relation to the number available.

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What Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates are there?

In addition to this year's Christmas plate, Royal Copenhagen has also launched other beautiful Christmas plate series.

Royal Copenhagen Christmas Plates with Foreign Inscription: Weihnachten, Vanoce, Noel, Christmas

Royal Copenhagen's Christmas plates have also been released with the word "Jul" written in a range of other languages than Danish. This was most common in the beginning, when Christmas plates with German text were produced specifically for the German market. Therefore, the Christmas plates with German text are also the most common plates with foreign text.

The production of Christmas plates with foreign text occurred during the period from 1908 to the 1920s and began again during the war years of 1940-1945. In addition to the German-language plates, there are also plates in French and Czech.

After the war, Christmas plates have been produced with Danish text, but one was produced in 1999 with Italian text.

Royal Copenhagen Peter's Christmas Plates

Royal Copenhagen released a series of eight plates inspired by the famous Christmas story "Peter's Christmas". Each of the eight plates had a verse from the story about how Peter and his family celebrate Christmas. The complete story consists of a total of 11 songs that describe the wait for Christmas, Christmas Eve itself, New Year's Eve, and Epiphany Eve, and finally the old Christmas tree being taken away after Christmas.

"Peter's Christmas" is the classic story of the Danish Christmas and was written in its current form by Johan Krohn in 1870. The story is for many the epitome of the cozy Danish Christmas as it was formed in the late 1800s with gifts and a Christmas tree.

The Christmas plates are decorated with motifs from the story's illustrations, which are by Otto Haslund and the author's brother Pietro Krohn. The edges of the plates are decorated with spruce branches and at the bottom, there is a verse from the story so that each plate has a verse that fits the illustration.

Royal Copenhagen Children's Christmas Plates

From 1998 to 2011, Royal Copenhagen released an exciting series of Christmas plates called "Børnenes Jul" (Children's Christmas). This series of Christmas plates shows motifs of children who are delighted by Christmas and are in different Christmas scenes such as nativity plays and dancing around the Christmas tree.

The series was designed by the artist Ingrid Jensen and the motifs are sweet and suitable for the children's theme. The Christmas plates are richly decorated with emphasis on the detail in the motifs.

"Børnenes Jul" is very similar to a Christmas version of the Children's Day plates from Bing & Groendahl.

Royal Copenhagen Christmas in Denmark Xmas Plates

The beloved family Christmas plate series was a colorful series of plates depicting a romanticized family Christmas from around the turn of the century, 1900. The plate series is particularly distinguished by its great colorfulness and the very clear motifs on the individual plates.

The family is shown in various classic Christmas situations such as dancing around the Christmas tree, ice skating, shopping for gifts, cozying up in the living room, and fetching the Christmas tree.

Like the Peter's Christmas plates, these Christmas plates depict a picture of the classic Christmas as one imagines it in olden days with dad and mom and the children together in the happy holiday activities.

The series ran from 1991 to 1996.

Royal Copenhagen Hearts of Christmas Plates

Between 2006 and 2010, Royal Copenhagen released a series of platters called "Hearts' Christmas". The Christmas platters in this series are very similar to those we know from our dear families, and it's not surprising since both platter series were designed by Hans Henrik Hansen.

The theme is also the classic Christmas, but here it is just two children enjoying Christmas with Santa Claus who are at the center. "Hearts' Christmas" is thus a series that celebrates children's joy of the holiday season.

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