Dessert plate

Particularly interesting products of the 18th-century manufactories include large service ornaments, which were the decorative centrepiece of tableware. The most impressive ones were given sophisticated shapes of pavilions, arbours, trees with tangled branches or steep mountain slopes, "with all 18th-century craftsmanship and ingenuity exerted on them". For the less affluent part of society, the factories produced more modest tableware sets, but still with a wide range of decorations. One example is a shallow white plate from the collection of the National Museum in Lublin, designed by Filip Guichard, who worked in Magdeburg. Products of this type, described as particularly beautiful, were decorative and had a utilitarian function. Such tableware was popular among Silesians, where folk wedding plates, with floral decorations with an ornamental openwork collar made of a slanting lattice, with a wavy contour and added decorations in the form of small flowers set on the intersections of the plait, were a valuable acquisition for every lady of the house, emphasising the status.