Bow Kakiemon ‘Quail Pattern’ Serving Platter, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Geelong, Victoria
Bow octagonal serving dish of rectangular form, painted in ‘Kakiemon’ colours with a version of the ‘Quail’ pattern, within an iron red foliage border with gilt flower heads.
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Baluster Vase, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early example of bow’s output, with a smooth, silky glaze. Painted after the Kakiemon with a phoenix, butterfly and various plants after the Japanese; with reserved panels featuri...
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Chocolate Pot, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Of full-bellied pear-shape with large sparrow-beak lip set slightly below the top rim of the body in front of a triangle of circular pouring holes and at the right angle to the strap...
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Soup Tureen, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Oval tureen and cover, decorated after the Kakiemon in the two quail pattern; the crabstock handles and masks are interesting features. The tureen has had a rather unhappy life, appa...
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Baluster Mug, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1753
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Pint mug of baluster form with flared base and grooved strap-handle with heart-shaped termination. The face of the mug painted after the Kakiemon with the two Quail pattern. The reve...
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Cup and Saucer, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1753
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Low tea cup with clip handle with matching saucer, decorated after the Kakiemon with the two quail pattern. An unusual form with scarce decoration. Provenance: Windsor Antiques;...
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H 12 in W 0.5 in D 0.5 in
Knife and Fork, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1749
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An unsually early set of handles with original steel tines and blade. Pistol grip form moulded with acanthus scrolls, leaves and swags and painted with indianische Blumen in a Kakiem...
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H 2.25 in W 9.25 in D 7.25 in
Bow Porcelain Kakiemon-Style Double Quail Pattern Cabbage Leaf Dish, circa 1758
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Downingtown, PA
Bow Porcelain Kakiemon-style Double Quail pattern cabbage leaf dish, circa 1758-1760.
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Bow Porcelain Kakiemon Dish The Two Quails
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Leeds, GB
Porcelain dish dating to c.1755 is decorated in the Kaikemon style with the Two Quails (See Dr. C. Girton 'The Two Quail Pattern' p.90 and a similar pattern on examples 28 - 31). ...
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Vase, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Of elongated high shouldered ovoid form with cylindrical neck after a traditional meiping (prunus vase). Painted in a Kakiemon palette with a lady in a kimono, a flowering branch fro...
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Coffee Can, Kakiemon, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1753
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Straight-sided form, form decorated with the two quail pattern. The quail symbolize marriage, and are rare on bow. Provenance: Taylor collection, Simon Spero, E&J Handley Coll. ...
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Large Jug with Kakiemon decoration, Bow Porcelain, circa 1756
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine, large jug of baluster form with wide strap handle and prominent beak lip. Painted and gilt after the Kakiemon in an unusual palette of carmine, blues, black, yellow, green an...
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Pickle Dish, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rare pickle dish, moulded and formed by hand, then decorated in an interesting style that bears a striking similarity to some of the A-Mark examples. Provenance: The Billie Pa...
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H 9.2 in W 9.2 in D 6 in
Lighthouse Coffee Pot, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A lighthouse shaped pot, for coffee, tea or chocolate; the shape taken from an earlier silver model. Silver pots of this shape usually about 30 years earlier. Decorated after the Kak...
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Pair of Fluted Dessert Plates, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Each of shallow circular form with scalloped rim and painted in the Kakiemon two Quail pattern with a pair of partridges standing between a flowering prunus and a kikyo bush amidst f...
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H 1.5 in W 6.2 in D 8 in
Leaf-Shaped Dish, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Of strawberry-leaf form with stalk handle, the underside moulded with trailing strawberry plants and with pad feet. Decorated after the Kakiemon with prunus and C issuing from banded...
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H 1 in W 10.8 in D 6 in
Dish, Kakiemon Decoration: Flaming Tortoise, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Deep dish of chamfered rectangular form, painted after the Kakiemon with the flaming tortoise pattern of a large central dragon chasing its tail and surrounded by a ‘flaming tortoise...
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Bow Porcelain Plate, Kakiemon Two Quail Pattern, C 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Gargrave, North Yorkshire
Bow porcelain plate, c. 1755. The octagonal plate, well painted, to the centre, with a representation of the Kakiemon Two Quail pattern, in vivid enamels.
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Coffee Cup, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1753
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A common shape with uncommon decoration a coffee cup, painted after the Kakiemon with the two quail pattern. Provenance: Windsor Antiques; Taylor Collection.
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H 1.5 in W 17.4 in D 9 in
Large Meat Dish, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1760
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine, large rectangular dish with deep well and chamfered corners, in the largest of the recorded sizes of this form. Painted after the Kakiemon with the two quail pattern. Prov...
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Today you’re likely to bring out your antique and vintage porcelain in order to dress up your dining table for a special meal.
Porcelain, a durable and nonporous kind of pottery made from clay and stone, was first made in China and spread across the world owing to the trade routes to the Far East established by Dutch and Portuguese merchants. Given its origin, English speakers called porcelain “fine china,” an expression you still might hear today. "Fine" indeed — for over a thousand years, it has been a highly sought-after material.
Meissen Porcelain, one of the first factories to create real porcelain outside Asia, popularized figurine centerpieces during the 18th century in Germany, while works by Capodimonte, a porcelain factory in Italy, are synonymous with flowers and notoriously hard to come by. Modern porcelain houses such as Maison Fragile of Limoges, France — long a hub of private porcelain manufacturing — keep the city’s long tradition alive while collaborating with venturesome contemporary artists such as illustrator Jean-Michel Tixier.
Porcelain is not totally clumsy-guest-proof, but it is surprisingly durable and easy to clean. Its low permeability and hardness have rendered porcelain wares a staple in kitchens and dining rooms as well as a common material for bathroom sinks and dental veneers. While it is tempting to store your porcelain behind closed glass cabinet doors and reserve it only for display, your porcelain dinner plates and serving platters can safely weather the “dangers” of the dining room and be used during meals.
Add different textures and colors to your table with dinner plates and pitchers of ceramic and silver or a porcelain lidded tureen, a serving dish with side handles that is often used for soups. Although porcelain and ceramic are both made in a kiln, porcelain is made with more refined clay and is stronger than ceramic because it is denser.
On 1stDibs, browse an expansive collection of antique and vintage porcelain made in a variety of styles, including Regency, Scandinavian modern and other examples produced during the mid-century era, plus Rococo, which found its inspiration in nature and saw potters crafting animal figurines and integrating organic motifs such as floral patterns in their work.