Plate 24 cm irregular, high rim "Tierra

D 24,0 x H 3,5 cm

Art.Nr. RT 224 - . . . . .

The special use properties of this item

The dinner and menu plate 24 cm with high rim is a trend item of the 2020s and especially popular with the younger connoisseurs. The presentation of food differs from serving on a classic rim plate and represents the modern zeitgeist through its color and shape like no other serving item. Basically, a much larger serving surface is available on plates with a high rim than on classic menu plates with a rim. This 24 cm wide dinner plate offers just under 23 cm of serving and serving surface. In comparison, a flag plate with a larger diameter of 27 cm - e.g. from the Harmony series - only offers a serving surface of 18 cm. Thus, the space gain of such a plate with its almost 90° rising edge is enormous compared to classic menu plates.

This functional property provides the plate with high edge - technically correct, by the way, plate with high edge - a concise independence and the special character of modernity. In urban environments, space is becoming increasingly important and with a diameter of 24 cm, this plate can be set even on 60s tables. This fits the zeitgeist

Also in terms of food variety, this serving plate surpasses the classic flat plate. Half plate half bowl it may well be called bowl plate. Its depth is not enough for a soup, but gives especially sauce-heavy meals a good stability. Whether a masterfully arranged salmon fillet or a portion of chili con carne, both can be served perfectly in the bowl plate.

When choosing a food plate with a high edge, you should pay attention to the consumption comfort . Executed too high, such an "edge" can quickly become an obstacle when cutting and picking up the food. The knife should still be able to be guided by the guest at least at a 45° angle. On this pleasure comfort we have paid attention and dimensioned this dish plate accordingly.

Although the trend of this food plate is dedicated more to the younger generation, this plate also suitable for older people and for all connoisseurs who are limited by impaired vision or motor disorders. The raised edge facilitates the pick up of the food and the edge protects against slipping. The same applies, of course, for toddlers - but they probably prefer Pocahontas or Maya the Bee.

In handling before and after eating, the bowl plate is somewhat more difficult to handle than a classic food plate. The bowl plate should not be stacked high. Unlike many other manufacturers, we at Holst Porcelain manufacture this plate with a high rim from genuine hard porcelain. This gives it the advantage of high stability and durability. With the design appeal of the modern trend, this plate - with the exception of stackability - includes all the benefits of a gastronomy-grade, resilient serving plate...

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The design and character of the porcelain series Tierra


The name TIERRA stands for our earth and combines the earthen minerals of porcelain with the design and color of this series. Tierra does not only stand for naturalness and grounding, it rather forms the base of all life forms from which we get our food. This, on brown Tierra porcelain, the colors of the individual meals act quite differently than on white porcelain. While the white significantly highlights and enhances the character of individual food components, on the brown of Tierra porcelain they melt together into a more natural overall image. The green of a lettuce leaf, the yellow of a potato and even the red of meat juices seem more quiet and more subtle, melting together as an orchestra of delights.

Reactive porcelain of earthen colors tends to serve the pleasure of sheer simplicity, grounding the food presented in a natural overall image. White porcelain, on the other hand, highlights the effect of the culinary arts and thus also visually emphasizes the taste experience.

The reactive porcelain Tierra gets its unique character from the special technique of applying and firing the reactive metallica pigments, which give the surface an exciting and three-dimensional perception in a brown-black structure. The reactive effect is evident in our porcelain - quite unlike many other ceramic tableware - through the "true reactive glazes" and not just the application of a handful of solitary dots. We fire with Tierra real hard porcelain reactive and achieve not only a unique design, but also a 100% commercial suitability as hard porcelain in a "Modern Trend of Colors".



The outstanding fact about the reactive glazes of Holst Porcelain is their combination variety among themselves. Thus Musgo, Carbon, Coral, Arena, Granito, Moreno and Tierra can be combined to exciting and always new, homogeneous serving combinations as "mix & match porcelain". Above all, they are not only combinable with themselves, but also melt together harmoniously with all white porcelain series as a deliberately arranged highlight.

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The special features of the material and glaze

The outstanding feature of the articles in the "Reactive Trend" series from Holst Porzellan is the realization of a reactive glaze on high-firedfeldspar-porcelain above 1.320 °COnly this way real hard porcelain is created, whos properties are not subject to any natural aging process

In contrast to most of the reactive tableware on the market, which is predominantly offered on a lower fired ceramic, stoneware or Vitreous China, this article is made of genuine, high-quality feldspar porcelain (hard porcelain). On the development and implementation of the reactive porcelain, we have researched more than three years together with our partner factory and invested a lot of time and money to realize this reactive tableware "fit for professional use" in the quality level hotel porcelain. In fact, originally this urban decoration type comes from fine ceramics finishing, which has matured to new popularity thanks to an English manufacturer. However, even this Vitreous China does not match the hardness and density of the real feldspathic porcelain, and therefore quickly shows fatigue in commercial use. Established porcelain manufacturers have simulated reactive porcelain via decals and simply applied the reactive pattern as a full decal on a standard colored article. In fact, this has created beautiful decal images, but the character of a handmade, urban porcelain simply cannot be implemented in style on 0-8-15 standard items.

We perceived this gap in the market as a challenge for a true porcelain professional and set to work. After three years of intensive research, we were able to present true reactive porcelain on natural, hand-crafted characterizing molds to the professional world. And that's not even cheating, because every item in the "Reactive Trend" collection is made by hand in a small porcelain manufactory with great effort and attention to detail.

Each piece is unique!

This combines the modern zeitgeist of treny decals with the good properties of genuine hard porcelain. Exactly therein lies the difference to many purely externally similar looking dishes. Unfortunately many suppliers now describe inferior ceramic tableware as porcelain due to ignorance or incorrect information from the manufacturer. We guarantee a hard firing above 1.320 °C and that makes all the difference.

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Hardness and stability of our reactive porcelain
In order to equip the porcelain mass in such a way that the reactive glaze succeeds, we had to make use of mineral additives that make the process of ion plating possible, even in the high-firing range above 1.320 °C. As an "unintended side effect" needle mullit formation, which is exclusive to porcelain, increased and further hardened the body.

The result is a porcelain that is even superior to Alumina porcelain in terms of mechanical resistance - i.e. edge impact resistance! Following the edge impact tests our reactive porcelain even survives being hammered with 0.4 Joule. This corresponds to an incredible stability and is therefore "harder" than any commercial hotel porcelain! See for yourself in the video above the result of a series of tests.


Tests conducted in early 2020 have shown that our reactive tableware can withstand a temperature load of up to 350 °C. This is not particularly unusual for high-quality feldspar porcelain. But what fascinated us ourselves were the measurements in the shock range. the tested flat parts (plates and platters) of reactive porcelain easily withstood a thermal shock of +- 182 °C. However, in order to fully test the property of thermal shock resistance, we need "official" laboratory tests. A decision to invest in this expensive and time-consuming determination procedure has not yet been made. Therefore, we can only state that in our test furnaces a thermal shock of +- 182 °C was easily survived. However, we cannot guarantee it at present yet! To be continued

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Please allow us to point out that there are only a few porcelain manufacturers in the world who can produce reactive glazes on high-fired hard porcelain above 1.320 °C like our articles of the "Reactive Trend Series". More than 90% of tableware of this type offered on the market is produced on stoneware, earthenware or similar ceramic tableware. Please read the assessments and results of the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment from 09/2020: