Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Containers (hierarchy name)
5. containers (receptacles)
6. [containers by function or context]
7. ceremonial containers

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment
4. Containers
5. containers
6. containers by function or context
7. culinary containers
8. containers for serving and consuming food
9. vessels for serving and consuming food
10. dishes
11. plates

Anotations

Scope note:

Plates commemorating a child's baptism or christening, of metal or ceramic and often having decorations or an inscription. Examples would be particular types of plates of brass, ceramic, or tin that were common in the 17th-18th centuries in Gelderland, the Netherlands; these plates were sometimes used as offertory plates for well-wishers of the child, often given by the godparents to commemorate the baptism. The tradition grew, in part, out of the earlier tradition of the "birth trays." Modern christening plates may be both commemorative and utilitarian, used by the child to hold food for consumption.