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Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca Vegetable Face Plate
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca Vegetable Face Plate, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Number 12
Category

Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic, Pottery

Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Arcimboldesca-Motif Vegetable Face Plates
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca-Motif Vegetable Face Plates, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Set
Category

Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca-Motif Vegetable Face Plates
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca-Motif Vegetable Face Plates, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

Piero Fornasetti Arcimboldesca Vegetable Face Plates, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca Vegetable Face Plates, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo, A Pair
Category

Vintage 1950s Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic, Pottery

Ceramic Plate with Vegetable Face Fornasetti
By Fornasetti
Located in Atlanta, GA
Fornasetti porcelain plate with face made with arranged vegetables. Stamped "2, Fornasetti-Milano
Category

Late 20th Century Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

Ceramic Plate with Vegetable Face Fornasetti
By Fornasetti
Located in Atlanta, GA
Fornasetti porcelain plate with face made with arranged vegetables. Stamped "4, Fornasetti-Milano
Category

Late 20th Century Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

Ceramic Plate with Vegetable Face Fornasetti
By Fornasetti
Located in Atlanta, GA
Fornasetti porcelain plate with face made with arranged vegetables. Stamped 11, Fornasetti-Milano
Category

Late 20th Century Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

Ceramic Plate with Vegetable Face Fornasetti
By Fornasetti
Located in Atlanta, GA
Fornasetti Porcelain plate with face made with arranged vegetables. Stamped "1, Fornasetti-Milano
Category

Late 20th Century Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

Ceramic Plate with Vegetable Face Fornasetti
By Fornasetti
Located in Atlanta, GA
Fornasetti Porcelain Plate with face made with arranged vegetables. Stamped "6, Fornasetti-Milano
Category

Late 20th Century Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

Creil et Montereau Faïence Transferware Assiette Parlantes Face Card Plates, S/8
By Creil et Montereau
Located in Philadelphia, PA
- France, circa 1920s. Known as assiettes parlantes or talking plates, this set is based on the face
Category

Vintage 1920s French French Provincial Dinner Plates

Materials

Earthenware

Vintage Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate, #286
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Surreal Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts the face of Lina Cavalieri
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Fornasetti Porcelain Surrealist Themes & Variation Plate, #260
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Fornasetti porcelain Surrealist Themes & Variation plate #260, The Snail, Atelier Fornasetti The
Category

Early 2000s Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Fornasetti Themes & Variations Plate-Clock, Pattern Number 74
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Surreal Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts the face of Lina
Category

Late 20th Century Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Fornasetti Surrealist Themes & Variations Plate, #18, Fornasetti, "Circles"
Located in Downingtown, PA
face of Lina Cavalieri, Piero Fornasetti's muse. The plate is within its original black & white
Category

Early 2000s Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Cairo, Six Contemporary Porcelain Dessert Plates with Decorative Design
By Vito Nesta
Located in Milano, Lombardia
jewelry with an expression of proud strength on her face, is the protagonist of this dinner plate in
Category

2010s Italian Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Cairo, Six Contemporary Porcelain Dinner Plates with Decorative Design
By Vito Nesta
Located in Milano, Lombardia
jewelry with an expression of proud strength on her face, is the protagonist of this dinner plate in
Category

2010s Italian Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Porcelain Themes & Variations Plate, Motiv 27
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
surreal in design with half the plate showing the right side of her face and the other three closeups of
Category

Vintage 1980s Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Porcelain Themes & Variations Plate, Motiv 34
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Porcelain Themes & Variations Plate, Motiv 34, Soap Bubbles, The
Category

Vintage 1980s Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Fornasetti Themes & Variations Porcelain Plate, Number 9, Maori Tatoos
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts the face of Lina Cavalieri
Category

Late 20th Century Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Porcelain Themes and Variations Plate, Motiv 25
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Fornasetti designs. This one depicts the face of Lina Cavalieri as a female Bacchus. These plates are
Category

Vintage 1980s German Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Fornasetti Rosenthal Plate, Temi E Variazioni-Themes and Variation, Motiv 15
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
striking Rosenthal Fornasetti gold-rimmed black and white printed plate with the face of Lina Cavalieri her
Category

Vintage 1980s Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Fornasetti Themes & Variations Gold Plate, Tema E Variazioni, Pattern Number 34
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
plates. They are, in a way, a meditation on the mystery of femininity, the same face appearing, as in a
Category

Late 20th Century Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Mesi & Soli Plates, "12 Mesi, 12 Soli", Twelve Suns
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
the 1950s. Each plate features a different month of the year, represented by a sun with the face of a
Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Fornasetti hand painted decorative plate, "Tema e Variazioni" 78, made in Italy
By Fornasetti, Piero Fornasetti
Located in Milano, IT
; her face has then been interpreted in more than 400 different designs, and an equal number of plates
Category

Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic, Porcelain

Coalport Porcelain Plate, Rose du Barry Pink, Fruits by Jabey Aston, circa 1870
By Jabey Aston, Coalport Porcelain
Located in London, GB
visible from the underside and hardly visible from the face of the plate. Otherwise the plate looks
Category

Antique 1870s English Victorian Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Crown Derby Porcelain Plate, Puce Cherubs by Richard Askew, Georgian ca 1785
By Crown Derby
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful Crown Derby plate made in about 1785. The very charming decoration of a puce
Category

Antique 1780s English Georgian Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Mesi and Soli Pair of Plates 12 Suns 12 Months, 1955
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
rare Piero Fornasetti "12 Mesi 12 Soli" series plates show the sun as a woman's face and each one
Category

Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Cairo, Six Contemporary Porcelain Platters with Decorative Design
By Vito Nesta
Located in Milano, Lombardia
jewelry with an expression of proud strength on her face, is the protagonist of this dinner plate in
Category

2010s Italian Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Porcelain Themes & Variations - Buttons, Motiv 13
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
The striking Rosenthal Fornasetti gold-rimmed black and white printed plate with the face of Lina
Category

Vintage 1980s Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Set of 12 Longwy France Porcelain Pottery Fish Dinner Halibut Decoration, C.1920
Located in Gardena, CA
throughout most pieces, stacking wear to glaze to faces of fish. One plate with a chip to underside edge
Category

20th Century French Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Vintage Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate, #14
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Surreal Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts a keyhole with the face of
Category

Late 20th Century Italian Modern Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Vintage Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate, #74
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Surreal Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts the face of Lina Cavalieri
Category

1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Vintage Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate, #15
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Fornasetti porcelain themes & variation plate #15, The Hand, Barnaba Fornasetti
Category

Early 2000s Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Astronomici Plate, #4 in Series
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
. Mark: A moon and sun within a circle with smiling faces with scattered stars and the pattern name
Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Fornasetti Porcelain Surrealist Themes & Variation Plate, #83
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Surreal Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts the face of Lina
Category

Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Themes & Variations Porcelain Plate, # 27
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Cavalieri's face is rather surreal in design with half the plate showing the right side of her face and the
Category

Vintage 1980s Mid-Century Modern Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

MCM Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Themes & Variations Porcelain Plate
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Themes & Variations Plate, Motiv 22, With original
Category

Vintage 1980s Mid-Century Modern Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Vintage Fornasetti Surrealist Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate, #319
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Fornasetti Surrealist Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate #319, Gorgonzola Cheese, Atelier
Category

Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Fornasetti Themes & Variations Plate #334, Atelier Fornasetti, The Quiet
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Box. The Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts the face of Lina
Category

Early 2000s Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Porcelain Plate, Themes & Variations, Motiv 19
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Rosenthal Fornasetti Temi E Variazioni porcelain plate, Themes & Variations, Motiv 19
Category

Vintage 1980s German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

1960 Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Astronomici Plate, #7 in Series
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
1960 Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate with number 7 in the Astronomici series. Astronomici means
Category

Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Porcelain Themes and Variations Plate, Motiv 28
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
striking Rosenthal Fornasetti gold-rimmed black and white printed plate with the face of Lina Cavalieri
Category

Vintage 1980s Mid-Century Modern Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Fornasetti Themes & Variations Gold Plate, Tema E Variazioni, Pattern Number 96
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Fornasetti Themes & Variations gold plate, butterfly, Tema E Variazioni, Pattern number 96
Category

Late 20th Century Italian Modern Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Fornasetti Face Plate, Tema e Variazioni, N116
By Fornasetti
Located in Winnetka, IL
An evocative porcelain plate by Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988) of Lina Cavalieri, the artist's muse
Category

Vintage 1960s Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Midcentury Fornasetti Face Plate, Tema e Variazione N90
By Fornasetti
Located in Winnetka, IL
created more than 500 images of Lina Cavalieri's face, most of them on dinner plates. As Patrick Mauries
Category

Vintage 1960s Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Midcentury Fornasetti Iconic Face Plate, Tema e Variazoni N1
By Fornasetti
Located in Winnetka, IL
on dinner plates. A riveting, captivating face, it was the basis for all future representations of
Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

1950s Fornasetti Roman Mosaic Face Plate, Tema e Variazioni N131
By Fornasetti
Located in Winnetka, IL
An porcelain plate by Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988) of Lina Cavalieri, the artist's muse, inspired
Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Minton Aesthetic Movement Plate, Holland Pattern, Marked 1888
By Minton
Located in Geelong, Victoria
Minton octagonal plate with an intricate printed Aesthetic Movement design, comprising of a lady's
Category

Antique 1880s British Aesthetic Movement Dinner Plates

Materials

Enamel

Fine Pair of George III Ambassadorial Silver Plates
By Paul Storr
Located in London, GB
). This pair of ambassadorial silver plates were made by famed London silversmith Paul Storr (1771-1844
Category

Antique 1810s British George III Dinner Plates

Materials

Silver

Fornasetti hand painted decorative plate, "Tema e Variazioni" 78, made in Italy
By Piero Fornasetti, Fornasetti
Located in Milan, IT
; her face has then been interpreted in more than 400 different designs, and an equal number of plates
Category

Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic, Porcelain

Coalport Georgian Handpainted Dessert Service
By Coalport Porcelain
Located in London, GB
and gilt with pierced corners. Two rococo style handles face outward and sits on the upper body of the
Category

Antique 1840s English Rococo Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Bernard Hesling Enamelled Platter
By Bernard Hesling
Located in Fitzroy, Victoria
Steel platter with vitreous enamel decoration, showing two faces. Silver and gold on a navy ground
Category

Vintage 1960s Oceanic Other Dinner Plates

Materials

Steel

Bernard Hesling Enamelled Platter
Bernard Hesling Enamelled Platter
H 18.51 in W 18.51 in D 1.97 in
Set of Six Rare Piero Fornasetti Arcimboldesca Motif Vegetable Face Plates
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
The plates are from a set after Arcimboldo, the design of a face created with the use of vegetables
Category

Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Piero Fornasetti Tema E Variazioni Plate, #101, of Lina Cavalieri's Face
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
The plate is printed with an iconic image of Lina Cavalieri's face.
Category

20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Tema E Variazioni Plate, #131 of Lina Cavalieri's Face
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Fornasetti plate is printed with an iconic image of Lina Cavalieri's face.
Category

20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Piero Fornasetti Tema E Variazioni Plate, #64, of Lina Cavalieri's Face
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Fornasetti plate is printed with the mysterious & iconic image of Lina Cavalieri's face.   
Category

Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Tema E Variazioni Plate, #89 of Lina Cavalieri's Face.
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Fornasetti plate is printed with an iconic image of Lina Cavalieri’'s face.
Category

20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Piero Fornasetti Pottery Themes & Variation Plates
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti pottery themes & variation plates Patterns #27, 30, 58, 63, 67,& 70 Circa 1960s
Category

Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Pottery, Ceramic

Barnaba Fornasetti Calendar Plate for 1999
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
calendar plate depicts a crescent moon face blowing panels, each with the different month, across the plate
Category

Late 20th Century Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Vintage Piero Fornasetti Themes & Variation Plate, #27
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Fornasetti pottery plate in the Themes & Variations pattern printed in black and white depicts the face of
Category

Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

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Face Plates For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are several options of face plates available for sale. Each of these unique face plates was constructed with extraordinary care, often using ceramic, porcelain and earthenware. We have 101 antique and vintage face plates in-stock, while there are 3 modern editions to choose from as well. Face plates have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. Face plates are generally popular furniture pieces, but Mid-Century Modern, Regency and Victorian styles are often sought at 1stDibs. There have been many well-made face plates over the years, but those made by Fornasetti, Piero Fornasetti and Coalport Porcelain are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much are Face Plates?

The average selling price for at 1stDibs is $750, while they’re typically $235 on the low end and $10,000 highest priced.

Finding the Right Dinner Plates for You

Set the mood when you’re setting the table. The right antique and vintage dinner plates for the meals in your home can truly elevate the dining experience.

We haven’t had our own plate at dinner for very long. It wasn’t until the middle of the 19th century in Europe that individual dinner plates had become the norm, replacing the platters that diners had shared before them. Innovations at the dining table are believed to have been introduced by Italian noblewoman Catherine de’ Medici, who, when she married King Henry II of France in 1533, brought with her decorative table adornments for meals and fine tableware such as silver forks, replacing the fingers and knives utilized during dinner before her arrival. Italy was a bit faster on table settings, and, thanks to Catherine, tableware such as dinner plates would also replace the wooden trenchers and flat slabs of days-old bread that preceded them.

Today, while enthusiasts of mid-century modern furnishings might pine for vintage mismatched dinner plates — a mix of old and new can be refreshing — presenting ceramic vessels, glassware and decorative centerpieces that matched was once actually part of the point as setting the table became more refined during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And as Fornasetti dinner plates and Chinese porcelain tableware have long held weight as collector’s items and status symbols, your dinner dishes haven’t ever really been merely functional. From antique metal dishes and ornamental earthenware designed by celebrated English ceramics makers Wedgwood, dinner plates are statement-making works that bring elegance and likely stir conversation at your table.

Entertaining is an art form, and the kitchen bar island and dining room table in your space are cherished gathering places where families and friends convene and grow closer over good meals. Browse an extensive collection of antique and vintage dinner plates to pair with these important events today on 1stDibs.

Questions About Face Plates
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