Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas

The Danish Plate House wishes you happy holidays and a merry Christmas!

The calender shows 24th December meaning an evening, in most cases, full of Christmas fun and joy. At the Danish Plate House, we appreciate all the many satisfied and happy customers who have visited our shop in Denmark and online.

Should any of you need to exchange an item purchased from the Danish Plate House, we offer our exchange services until 15th January 2013.

The shop in Odense, Denmark is only open for one day between Christmas and New Years eve. That day is Thursday 27th December from 11.00 to 19.00 - The webshop, of course, is open around the clock regardless of holidays.

A Merry Christmas from the Danish Plate House and our elves

Christmas gifts, decorations & plates

Finally, we got to December and thus began the month of Christmas, when most people are busy buying Christmas gifts, decorating the home with the finest Christmas ornaments and getting ready for one of the year's biggest events.

At DPH Trading, we are also prepared for Christmas with lots of wonderful Christmas gift ideas, Christmas ornaments and Christmas service to fantastic Christmas prices in the webshop at www.dphtrading.com.

See all the beautiful Christmas items here at our great deals page. Click on the title with Christmas items and jump directly to the section with all our Christmas items on sale.

In December, we send out our newsletter. Here we offer a lot of interesting different items at extraordinary good Christmas prices. Get these deals before everyone else. Subscribe to the newsletter by clicking here

We look forward to doing business with you and wish you and your family a Merry Christmas!

Christmas decorations from our shop in Denmark - Click and see all the great Christmas offers

Christmas by Georg Jensen - Click and see all the amazing offers online

Star Fluted Christmas by Royal Copenhagen - Save up to 33% right now

When greeted by this beautiful Christmas tree on Monday morning, getting into a terrific Christmas mood was not a problem.

Make old plates a great centerpiece

If you inherited some of the old blue-glazed vintage plaques with motif and have no idea what you need them for? Maybe you are already using plaques as service and dinnerware?

Now you can add a cake centerpiece or etagere to your dinner set. Create your own unique combination of dinner set, tableware, plaques or dishes at DPH Trading's webshop.

At the webshop www.dphtrading.com, you can both buy the plaques you want to be included in the centerpiece/etagere, order a rack and have drilled a hole in the middle of your plaques.

You can also deliver your own plaques, choose a suitable fitting and a drilling in the webshop and have it delivered to you a few days later.

See more examples of a beautiful centerpiece here and on the website: www.dphtrading.com/uk/centerpieces

Centerpiece in 2 layers and fitting in silver finish - Plates by Bing & Grondahl - See more on the website

Centerpiece in 3 layers and fitting in silver finish - Plates by Royal Copenhagen - See more on the website

Centerpiece in 2 layers and fitting in gold finish - Plates by Royal Copenhagen - See more on the website

Centerpiece in 2 layers and fitting in gold finish - Plates by Bing & Grondahl - See more on the website

Centerpiece in 3 layers and fittings in silver finish - Plates by Royal Copenhagen - See more on the website

Centerpiece in 3 layers and fittings in silver finish - Plates by Bing & Grondahl - See more on the website

Cake stand in two layers and fittings in silver-finish - Plates by Royal Copenhagen - See more on the website

Centerpiece in two layers and fittings in gold finish - Plates by Bing & Grondahl - See more on the website

The Sandman - Royal Whites

Beautiful Royal White figurine of The Sandman

This week at DPH trading the Royal White figurine of The Sandman is available at a sensational low price!

The Sandman - Royal Whites Figurine by Royal Copenhagen

Royal Copenhagen introduced the Royal Whites figurine series at the end of 2008. The series was an entirely new wager from the company once known as The Royal Porcelain Factory, in an attempt to appeal younger peoples awareness of the old famous figures and figurines of porcelain.

The Royal Whites are a new enterpretation of the old as well as new figurines in white porcelain with several different glazing techniques dating all the way back from the origins of lovely figurines.

From the stunning old figures of a girl with a mirror, Venus, the bathing girl and Susanne, originally designed by Gerhard Henning produced with overglazing, the figurine from 1904 of sweet Else feeding the birds, the cute Cairn Terrier standing on two legs from 2002 to the Great Dane produced in 2007.

All the famous figures and figurines are revived in mat or glazed white porcelain or bisquit, making the details and the beautiful craftsmanship available for everyone to enjoy.

The American artist Shane Brox has reforged the magical Royal Whites figurines, leaving the classic figurines perfect for modern decoration without compromising history.

In 2011 the last figurines of the series were terminated, as Royal Copenhagen chose to cancel all productions of figurines and figures.

Preview: New 2013 Christmas Plate

The Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate of 2013 is yet to be issued, but we have found this picture of the new Christmas plate.

The new plate celebrates the 100th anniversary of "the little mermaid". The Christmas plate also portrays the Royal Yacht "Dannebrog" and the Copenhagen skyline.

Hopefully the new Christmas plate will be made available for purchase soon, but we have yet to confirm the actual date of publication.

In the mean time you can, purchase former issues at www.dphtrading.com and admire the new beauty here:

The 2013 Royal Copenhagen Christmas Plate - "Copenhagen Harbour" designed by Sven Vestergaard

Popular Pendants from Le Klint

We are proud to present some of the most popular lamps and pendants from the Danish design company Le Klint.

Be inspired! Have a look in our Le Klint lamp section in the webshop here or get ideas how to re-ignite the lighting in your home - How about one of these new, elegant and beautiful lamps?

Le Klint Model 101

Le Klint Model 1 Delux

Le Klint Model 161

Le Klint Model 168

Le Klint Model 172

  

Le Klint Model 178

Le Klint Snowdrop Model 181

Le Klint Sunflower Model 190

See our entire collection of lamps and other great danish design products on the webshop at www.dphtrading.com

The new 2012 Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate is here!

Now in stock: The 2012 Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate

The new 2012 Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate is designed by Sven Vestergaard and has the title "Horns Reef". The designer has been inspired by the beautiful coastline around Denmark and the motif of the 2012 Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate depicts a sailboat passing Denmark's largest wind farm, Horns Reef, in the North Sea. Horns Reef is situated of the most westerly point of Denmark called Blåvands Huk. Denmark is known as a ship nation and also one of the largest manufacturers of windmills in the world.

Purchase the new 2012 Christmas plate by Royal Copenhagen here

The 2012 Royal Copenhagen Christmas Plate - Buy online here

Buy both new and early editions online here!

The story behind the Royal Christmas plates

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

The first RC Christmas plate was issued in a very limited edition in 1908, to test the interest of the public. The Christmas plate was warmly received and since then a Christmas plate have continuously been produced every year. The Royal Christmas plates are distinctive because of their famous blue and recognizable spruce branch, which surrounds the subject of all Christmas plates almost from the beginning.

The spruce edge, as we know it from Christmas plates today, have been the same on all of the decorative christmas plates since 1941, but there have been experiments with the edge much earlier. Already on the Christmas plate from 1909, the edge consisted of summer flowers and angels. In the 1911 plate, we have a real spruce branches with cones and in the 1915 version the edge also appears as it looks today. Actually there were some experiments with different edges up through the 1920s and in the 1930s the edge takes more and more shape, and finally in the1941 issue we have the same edge as the one we know today.

In the 1960s and 1970s there were Royal Christmas plates in almost every Danish home. Either as decoration on the walls or as savings in the attic. Unfortunately, the decreased interest in Royal Christmas plates in the subsequent years, has meant that today's christmas plates are not nearly at the high commercial value as the earlier issues.

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 plates have always been known as Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates.

Today, the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates are also used as dishes for Christmas parties, dessert plates of rice a la mande or as cake plates for festivities. The Christmas plates are of course still hung up on the wall, as always, but today, however, they serve a multiple use.

If you cover your Christmas table in a white, red or blue tablecloth the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates are complemented 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 the Christmas holidays.

Together with the Royal Copenhagen Christmas cups and saucers, you can set up 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 same year. It gives you the possibility to cover a lavish coffee table with the Royal Copenhagen Christmas Service accompanied by the coffee pot, sugar bowl, creamer and candlesticks.

The very first Royal Christmas plate from 1908 shows Mother Mary with the baby Jesus and was designed by one of the great contemporary artists named Chr. Thomsen. At the beginning the designers of the Christmas plates varied from year to year - one of the designers among the very first Christmas plates is Oluf Jensen. Since the mid-1960s Kaj Lange was a solid designer of Christmas plates. In 1986, Sven Vestergaard took over and he has designed the Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates ever since.