Punch up your look with clean black and white. Whether traditional or urban chic black and white is elegant and sophisticated.  For more information click on the picture or click the Decorative Dishes logo below.

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Spark your creativity with a decorative dish vignette. Choose a motif and have fun. How about tulips? Here are a variety of decorative plates with tulip motifs. First off is a fantastically bright English Garden with a hand colored tulip. This plate also has a wonderful textured leaf pansy fluted edge. Next is a shabby chic rustic hand made Italian plate. After that a fabulous Tiffany 1920's Art Deco porcelain cup, saucer, and small plate. Next is another vintage plate with brown array of tulips. Last is a floral oval dish with gold trim. Lovely! For more information click on the picture or click the Decorative Dishes logo below.

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Capture the tropics in your decor and add texture with colorful plates depicting bamboo or exotic tropical flowers and fruits. The first plate with lovely hand painted golden bamboo and aqua leaves is vintage 1950's California pottery. Next is a 3-D hand painted pineapple design with a crown, after that  is a neat bark cloth style camellia floral English plate hand colored with burgundy and green. Then there is a 50's retro brown and white frond plate, and finally two bright hibiscus on a squared of mini plate. For more information on any of the plates below ~Click it!

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Add charm and sweetness to your nursery decor with whimsical and delicate plates for wall or cabinet. The first plate is a vintage English plate featuring Little Miss Muffett. Next is a white plate with a sweet baby chick circling the edge. A sweet chic Parisian Rosanna tea set in "lunch box" is shown next. After that is a dramatic Italian large square cherub platter.  For more information click on the dish or click the Decorative Dishes logo below.

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Add some punch to entertaining by serving your guests with unique and striking platters, trays or chargers. Mix and match. Your serving pieces can compliment your decor or other dishes. 

Large tray or platter also make a dramatic focal point for a wall display

Below we have a very large yellow rose vintage USA platter, next is a charger Made in Japan with lotus and bird detail, then there is a green Swedish tole style tray, next is a Rosanna richly colored botanical oval platter, and last is a gold scroll on blue shiny glaze textured rectangular tray. For more information click on the dish. I have lots more. Please click the Decorative Dishes logo below.

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Texture is an important aspect in any decorating scheme. Dishes are a wonderful way to achieve this. Just hanging a dish on the wall immediately brings in some texture, but when the dish itself is textured you get double the effect. 

A style of dish called majolica has this depth and often is elegant and whimsical. The shapes can be unusual or the actual shape of something found in nature such as a leaf. Historically majolica was the name for the type of earthenware and glaze used. For decorative purposes it now describes items like the following: First is a gorgeous embossed pale aqua tray with cool curved handles, next is a rich green star burst plate, after that is a cream colored leaf dish Made in Portugal, then shown is a retro 70's style with textured lime flowers on a brown background--urban chic! Finally is a vintage English garden plate with a leaf pansy texture. For more information click on the dish.

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Succulent fruit motifs are another timeless decorative motif. Dishes with apples, oranges, pears, plums, and my favorite, cherries, are a wonderful way to achieve this. The first plate below is an octagonal vintage plate with a soft grape and peach motif, next is a French peach and leaf textured plate, after that is a lattice and grape vine scalloped edge plate, and then there is a fluted edge pear plate, next is aspetacular rich turquoise Italian majolica plate with hand painted white cherries, pears, and pomegranates and finally is a cute shape vintage California pottery pitcher with 3-D plums on one side and strawberries on the other. For more information click on the dish.

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Square plates add interest and definition to wall, cabinet, or table settings.  Very sharp. First is a whimsical dotted shopping square plate, next is a rich blue green Moorish tile style square plate, after that is a blue green toile square plate, then is a square plate depicting a line drawing of a classic San Francisco view, and last is a romantic Italy cherub square large plate. For more information click the picture! Website special for blog readers. Shop at www.decorativedishes.net and get 10% off orders of $25.00 or more--enter coupon code BLOG at checkout (not valid on eBay). 

Dish edges are like fringe on a rug or crown molding on a room. They add depth and extra interest to the main design. Texture can make a mundane display pop. The edge detail on dishes is just amazing and often overlooked. First is a bright white porcelain plate with pink roses and a wavy edge design. The next plate below is almost 100 years old and has a wonderful 3-D majolica type bramble detail with 3 different floral designs interspersed with leaves. It was made by Wedgwood with hand coloring on a center transfer. Next is an exotic green scene with fruit and wheat embossed trim. After that find a storybook style plate with embossed tulip, fan, and feather edge trim. Last is a 3-D pastoral plate with alternating roses and lattice on the rim. For more information click the picture! Website special for blog readers. Shop at www.decorativedishes.net and get 10% off orders of $25.00 or more--enter coupon code BLOG at checkout (not valid on eBay).