$320Sale Price / set|20% Off
Porcelain Tea or Coffee Set, Rosslau China Blau
Located in Chorzów, PL
Porcelain set, Rosslau China Blau. Breakfast set from the Hermann Schomburg & Söhne Porzellan Rosslau manufacture, China Blau collection.
Porcelain
Prouna Marble Venice Fog Fine Bone China Coffee Cups and Plates, Set of 4
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Elegant Prouna Marble Venice Fog fine bone china breakfast set for two, comprising two barrel-style coffee mugs and two matching bread or side plates.
Porcelain
Nantgarw Porcelain Breakfast Cup and Saucer with Pink Roses Wales, 1813-1822
By Nantgarw China Works
Located in Katonah, NY
What makes Nantgarw porcelain special? In the years 1813-1822, some of the most beautiful porcelain in the world was produced at the Nantgarw China Works. Founded in Wales by William...
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Breakfast Teacup, Canton Famille Verte Figures, '1'
Located in London, GB
This is a very striking breakfast cup and saucer made in the "Canton" famille verte style in China in circa 1880.
Porcelain
Porcelain Breakfast Teacup, Chinese Export, Canton Famille Verte Figures, '2'
Located in London, GB
This is a very striking breakfast cup and saucer made in the "Canton" famille verte style in China in circa 1880.
Porcelain
$1,902 / set
H 1.34 in W 13.78 in D 14.18 in
Plates Platters Serveware Set of 3 White Statuary Marble Collectible Design
By Barberini & Gunnell, Pieruga Marble
Located in Ancona, Marche
Hand carved presentation plates in Statuary marble. Multiple use as plates, platters and placers. The precious white Statuary marble has always been the one preferred by sculptors a...
Marble
Vintage Rosenthal Porcelain Coffee or Tea Set, 1960s
By Rosenthal
Located in Bastogne, BE
Björn Wiinblad for Rosenthal - Studio Linie, Germany coffee or tea set. Large vintage German service of the famous Rosenthal Linie factory from Germany. A very elegant service in b...
Porcelain
$240Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 3.94 in Dm 3.94 in
Contemporary Set of 2 Coffee Cups and Saucer Gold Hand Painted Porcelain
By Coralla Maiuri
Located in Roma, RM
Hand painted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Michelangelo coffee cup and saucer is material and earthy, like the great Renaissance Master's work. It conveys classical beauty...
Porcelain
$1,741Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 5.12 in Dm 4.73 in
Hand Painted Porcelain Tea Set from Central Asia in Kobalt Blue & Gold
Located in Vienna, Austria
Porcelain tea set from Central Asia, that consist of 6 small tea bowls, a tea pot and one plate for cookies. The traditional floral pattern is in cobalt blue glaze, the hand painted...
Porcelain
$237 / set
H 1.19 in Dm 5.12 in
Handmade Set of 3 Small Dishes in Bardiglio, Carrara and Marquina Marble
By Fiammetta V.
Located in Carrara, IT
Set of three small dishes in grey Bardiglio, white Carrara and black Marquina marble. Size of each piece: diameter 13 cm x h 3. Ideal for serving salt, pepper and spices in a elegan...
Marble
$286Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 3.94 in Dm 3.94 in
Contemporary Set of 2 Tea Cups and Saucer Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
By Coralla Maiuri
Located in Roma, RM
Hand painted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Michelangelo tea cup and saucer is material and earthy, like the great Renaissance Master's work. It conveys classical beauty an...
Porcelain
$241Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 2.17 in Dm 4.53 in
Contemporary Set of 2 Coffee Cups and Saucer Gold Hand Painted Porcelain
By Coralla Maiuri
Located in Roma, RM
Hand painted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this tea cup and saucer, from the Scipione Collection, is decorated on the outside with African red enamel intertwined with small gol...
Porcelain
$178Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 2.37 in Dm 2.25 in
Lebanon, Coffee Set with Six Contemporary Porcelains with Decorative Design
By Vito Nesta
Located in Milano, Lombardia
In Lebanon collection a different landscape depicts the local coasts, ruins, and architecture in black and white, with a sophisticated rim decoration that showcases blueprints of tra...
Porcelain
$744 / set
H 9.45 in W 7.49 in D 7.49 in
Schirnding Bavaria & Arturo Pasquinucci 17-Piece Porcelain Tea Service for Seven
Located in SANT ADRIÀ DE BESÒS, ES
A refined 17-piece German porcelain tea and coffee service by Schirnding Bavaria, created for the Italian house Arturo Pasquinucci Collezioni. Dating to approximately the late 1980s–...
Porcelain
$699 / set
H 5.91 in W 6.3 in D 10.63 in
Richard Ginori Silver Overlay Cobalt Porcelain Tea/coffee Set 15 Pieces
By Richard-Ginori Lavenite
Located in Verviers, BE
This is a stunning vintage Richard Ginori Signed teacup and saucer set featuring a deep cobalt blue glaze with intricate silver overlay decoration. A true collector’s piece, this set...
Silver
$3,200 / set
H 1 in W 10 in D 10 in
Mid 20th Century Minton Cobalt & Gold Pattern G6262 – Complete Tea Set for Eight
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Minton “Cobalt & Gold” Pattern G6262 – Complete Tea Set for Eight - 30 Pieces A spectacular and complete Minton Cobalt & Gold G6262 Tea Service for Eight, one of the most sought-aft...
Gold
$450 / set
H 1 in Dm 8 in
Black and White Transferware Marble or Cracked Ice Ironstone Plates, Set of 4
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A set of four early 19th Century English Ironstone, twelve sided plates in a ‘Marble’ pattern, sometimes called ‘Cracked Ice.’ A tissue printed sheet pattern, applied under the glaze...
Ironstone
$72 / set
H 2.05 in Dm 4.81 in
Contemporary Modern, Çini Decorated Porcelain Coffee Cup &Saucer 90ml, Set of 2
By DAY Studio
Located in İstanbul, İstanbul
Çini porcelain plates derived from an extensive research and deconstruction of traditional Ottoman tile work. While the patterns are repeated regularly in the art of tile making, the...
Porcelain
Quality 19th century porcelain coffee set
Located in Ipswich, GB
Quality 19th century porcelain coffee set, consisting of a large twin handled platter 38.5cm, two coffee cans with saucers and a coffee pot decorated in a imari pattern in stunning r...
Porcelain
Flo-Blue Collection of 9 Piece Matching "Formosa" Tea Set
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine "FORMOSA" Pattern flo-blue tea set is in very good condition and includes a large tea pot, sugar bowl, two dinner plates, small desert plate and two cups and saucers. The c...
Ceramic
Rococo Tea Coffee Service Meissen Blue Flowers First Choice 1940s
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Uppsala , SE
This Meissen porcelain Tea/coffee service features the classic "Blue Flower with Gold Grasses" (Blaue Blume mit Goldgräsern) pattern on a white body with delicate...
Porcelain
$1,264Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 1.19 in Dm 10.63 in
Set of 12 Blue and White Ironstone Dinner Plates by Hautin Boulenger & Cie
By Hautin, Boulenger et Cie 1
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A delightful set of 23 dinner plates in traditional blue and white antique French ironstone, made by the famous French faience manufacturer Hautin, Boulenger & Company (HB & Cie) of ...
Ironstone
$2,250 / set
H 6 in W 10.25 in D 7.25 in
Antique Deep Blue Wedgwood Jasperware Ten Piece Tea Set with Neoclassical Motif
By Wedgwood
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique ten piece tea set was made by the renowned Wedgwood Company of England in approximately 1830 in a Neoclassical Revival style. The set is done in an unglazed stoneware 'J...
Stoneware
$61,175
H 88.98 in W 70.87 in D 94.89 in
Renaissance Style Oak Tester 4 Poster Bed Armorial Tapestry Bedspread King Size
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
A vintage king size oak tester or four poster bed in the Renaissance style. Hand carved with Adam & Eve carvings in the headboard, figurative sculptures in the bedposts, three carve...
Oak
$3,600 / set
H 1 in Dm 10.8 in
A Set of 12 Cobalt Blue & Raised Gilt Antique Limoges Dinner Plates Circa 1900
By William Guerin
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An attractive set of dinner or presentation plates by one of Limoges re known Gilded Age factories, William Guerin. This plate features an elaborate design of raised tooled gilding o...
Gold, Enamel
$2,952Sale Price / set|20% Off
French Moustiers Hand-Painted Faience Dinner Service with Blue Bird Motif
By Moustiers
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
This exquisite Moustiers faience dinnerware set is a true celebration of traditional French craftsmanship. Hand-painted in delicate shades of blue on a creamy white background, each ...
Ceramic, Faience, Paint
$8,400Sale Price / set|48% Off
1850s Rare Faience Dinner Service "Chevreuse" by Jules Vieillard
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
An exceptional rare dinner service of 92 pieces in fine French earthenware, made by the esteemed faience manufacturer Jules Vieillard of Bordeaux. The charming blue and white design ...
Earthenware, Faience
$163,134
H 90.95 in W 61.03 in D 77.56 in
IMPORTANT BISHOP JAMES STANLEY 1508 KING HENRY VII ENGLiSH OAK TUDOR TESTER BED
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very rare and highly important, Museum quality, English Tudor King Henry VII Oak tester bed made for an...
Oak
Circa 1880 Italian Large Gilt wood LXV Style Confidente Sofa
Located in London, Park Royal
A rare antique find from Tuscany Italy. This 'Confidante' sofa, circa 1880, is in beautiful condition. The large frame is finely carved in the LXV style, with its original water gild...
Gold, Gold Leaf
Oak and Walnut Tester Bed
Located in New Orleans, LA
This lavish American oak and walnut tester bed exhibits superior craftsmanship and detail. The design is embellished by elaborate carving throughout in a neoclassical motif the inclu...
Silk, Mahogany, Oak, Walnut
$3,400 / set
H 5.91 in Dm 11.42 in
Faience Dinner Service Table with Blue Decoration, France 19th Century
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
Bring timeless French elegance to your table with this exquisite 75-piece antique faience dinnerware set, beautifully adorned with deep cobalt blue hand-painted floral motifs on a wa...
Ceramic, Faience, Paint
Steuben Amethyst Hand Blown Optic Rib Plates & Stemware Service for 12
By Steuben Glass
Located in Great Barrington, MA
What an amazing collection of Steuben's hand blown amethyst crystal dinner service for 12! All hand blown in the more desirable form of optic ribbing that gives each piece a special ...
Crystal
12 Copelands Grosvenor Porcelain Plates England For Tiffany
By Copeland, Tiffany & Co.
Located in Norwood, NJ
Set of 12 cobalt blue and gilt with white ground porcelain plates by Copelands England for Tiffany & Co. cobalt blue leaves the gold outline design.
Porcelain
$17,645 / set
H 87.01 in W 41.34 in D 88.59 in
Louis XVI Style Bunk Beds/Matching Pair of Single Beds Made by La Maison London
By La Maison London
Located in London, Park Royal
Louis XVI style bunk beds, exclusive to La Maison London: Hand carved featuring a band of intricate laurel leaves along the side bars and hand finished to order (picture shows a pale...
Wood
$288,204Sale Price|20% Off
H 113 in W 92 in
C19th Portrait Princesse de Joinville of Brazil - Spectacular fit for a palace
By Henri d'Ainecy Montpezat
Located in London, GB
Portrait of Princess de Joinville riding a Bay Horse Henri d’Aincy, Le Comte Monpezat (French 1817-1859) Painted circa 1837-9 oil on canvas 113 x 92 inches (including frame) 92 x 70 ...
Oil
$33,244
H 90.95 in W 179.14 in D 224.41 in
Louis XVI Style Panelling with Fireplace and a Marine Scene, Oil on Canvas
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
This paneled room is composed of a stone fireplace, a large glass door with four leaves, a single door (both with their frame) and a large oil on canvas depicting a marine scene sign...
Stone
$500,000
H 144 in W 228 in D 199 in
Antique 19th Century French Chateau Oak Paneled Salon Room "Boiserie" circa 1865
Located in New Orleans, LA
A complete boiseries from the French country estate: "Chateau de Quatres Barbes." The antique 19th century French Louis XVI style grand oak paneled salon room or "boiseries" from the...
Marble
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.
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