1429, there was a dresser 20 feet long on either side of the room, each with five rows of plate; A comparable display on three dressoirs could be seen at the State Banquet in Buckingham Palace for the US President, Donald Trump in 2019. Inventories of King Charles V of France (r. 1364-1380) record that he had 2,500 pieces of plate.

Plate was often melted down to finance wars or building, or until the 19th century