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Splendid Brown Transferware Cake stand, England, 1880s
Located in Milan, IT
Beautiful Gardens scene Brown Transferware Cake stand, England, 1880s
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Antique 1880s British Aesthetic Movement Platters and Serveware

Materials

Ceramic

Booths "British Scenery" Brown Transferware Plates – Set of Two
By Booth's
Located in Worcester Park, GB
This set of two vintage brown transferware plates from Booths England, part of the classic "British
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Antique Early 19th Century English Country Dinner Plates

Materials

Earthenware

Enoch Wood & Sons English Staffordshire ‘Fountain’ Brown Transferware Platter
By Enoch Wood & Sons
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A Transferware platter in the 'Fountain' pattern – Enoch Wood & Sons. – Burslem, Staffordshire
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Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Platters and Serveware

Materials

Earthenware

Podmore Walker Staffordshire Minerva Mythology Sepia Brown Transferware Platter
By Staffordshire
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A stoneware sepia brown transfer printed platter, “Minerva” made by Podmore Walker & Co., Tunstall
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Regency Platters and Serveware

Materials

Earthenware

English Transferware Iris Plate Cauldon Circa 1904
By Brown, Westhead & Moore/Cauldon
Located in Austin, TX
English Transferware Iris Plate signed Cauldon Circa 1904 Cauldon Ltd (Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co)
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Antique 1890s English Aesthetic Movement Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

English Transferware Iris Plate Cauldon Circa 1904
English Transferware Iris Plate Cauldon Circa 1904
$176 Sale Price
20% Off
H 0.8 in Dm 8.8 in
Brown Wedgewood Transferware wall plates England, 1880s
By Wedgewood
Located in Milan, IT
Set of Three Brown Wedgewood Transferware wall plates England, 1880s The smaller wall plates
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Antique 1880s British Aesthetic Movement Platters and Serveware

Materials

Ceramic

Brown Wedgewood Transferware wall plates England, 1880s
Brown Wedgewood Transferware wall plates England, 1880s
$842 / set
H 1.38 in W 9.06 in D 9.06 in
Set of Five 19th Century Transferware Plates
Located in Charlottesville, VA
A nice group of transferware plates. Great display pieces.
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Antique 19th Century French Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic

Creil Polychrome Transferware Polychrome Plate, Le Perroquet, circa 1830
By Creil et Montereau
Located in Philadelphia, PA
From the Creil region of Northern France, a transfer printed polychrome plate, titled – Le Perroquet (the parrot) Circa 1830. The image shows No. 5 from a series of twelve. A youn...
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Antique Early 19th Century French French Provincial Delft and Faience

Materials

Faience

Creil Polychrome Transferware Polychrome Plate, Le Polichinel, circa 1830
By Creil et Montereau
Located in Philadelphia, PA
From the Creil region of Northern France, a transfer printed polychrome plate, titled – Le Polichinel. Circa 1830. Pulcinella is a classical character that originated in the Commedi...
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Antique Early 19th Century French French Provincial Delft and Faience

Materials

Faience

Creil Polychrome Transferware French Revolution Gallic Marins Sailor Plate
By Creil et Montereau
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An early 19th century French transfer printed creamware plate, with polychrome hand painting, showing the mark for the Creil factory. The central image shows two French Revolution...
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Antique Early 19th Century French French Provincial Dinner Plates

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Earthenware

Creil Polychrome Transferware Polychrome Plate, Le Nid D’Oiseau, circa 1830
By Creil et Montereau
Located in Philadelphia, PA
From the Creil region of Northern France, a transfer printed polychrome plate, titled – Le Nid d’oiseau (the birds nest) Circa 1830. The image shows No. 6 from a series of twelve....
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Antique Early 19th Century French French Provincial Delft and Faience

Materials

Faience

Copeland Spode English Enameled Transferware Cactus Flower Dinner Plates S/6
By Copeland Spode
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A set of six Copeland Spode transfer printed and hand colored plates with embossed rims, Staffordshire, England, circa early 20th Century. A central image shows a black transfer of...
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Early 20th Century English International Style Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

19th Century English Victorian Bamboo Side Table
Located in Winter Park, FL
top has an inset brown and green transferware porcelain plaque and opens to a red silk lined interior
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Antique 19th Century English Victorian Side Tables

Materials

Brass

19th Century English Victorian Bamboo Side Table
19th Century English Victorian Bamboo Side Table
$2,500
H 29.75 in W 23 in D 17 in

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19th Century English Brown Transferware Porcelain Cup & Saucer with Factory Mark
Located in Atlanta, GA
19th century English brown transferware porcelain cup and saucer with opaque China factory mark.
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Antique 19th Century English Tea Sets

Materials

Porcelain

Antique J. Hall & Sons Brown Transferware Plate
Located in Naples, FL
This elegant plate has a scalloped edge, floral design trim with old architectural buildings along a winding river with a sailboat in center; transfer printing, a decorative techniqu...
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Antique Early 19th Century English Victorian Dinner Plates

Materials

Earthenware

American Transferware Porcelain Mug with Horse/Equestrian by Anchor Pottery
By Anchor
Located in Atlanta, GA
Late 19th century circa 1890s American brown transferware semi porcelain mug with horse/equestrian
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Antique Late 19th Century American Tableware

Materials

Porcelain

Mid-20th Century Royal Staffordshire Pair Of Transferware Square Plates
By Royal Staffordshire Ceramics 1
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Mid-20th Century pair of "Jenny Lind" brown transferware square plate by, Royal Staffordshire. Each
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Mid-20th Century English Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic

Antique Green Transferware Dinner Plates Phillips Longport Pair
Located in Pataskala, OH
Lovely pair of green transferware plates. The scene is Commerce by Edward & George Phillips
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Decorative Plates, Set of Five Transferware Plates
Located in Harrisburg, PA
This set of plates are of heavy porcelain. The are pre drilled in the back for hanging. The set came with two plates with the same image. Great on plate stands or hung on the wall.
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Early 2000s Chinese Chinese Export Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche

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Porcelain

Antique Green Transferware Dinner Plates Sicilian and Verona Patterns
Located in Pataskala, OH
Lovely pair of green transferware plates. The scene is one plate is Sicilian, features a beautiful
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

English Staffordshire Transferware Charger by Thomas Mayer Longport, circa 1830s
By Staffordshire
Located in Atlanta, GA
Early 19th century circa 1830s English Staffordshire purple and white transferware porcelain
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Antique Early 19th Century English Platters and Serveware

Materials

Porcelain

Helene Sedlmayer of Germany Transferware on Porcelain in Gilt Frame
Located in Cookeville, TN
This is the beautiful Helene Sedlmayer of Germany. Helene Kreszenz Sedlmayer (12 February 1813, Trostberg Munich) was a German beauty of the 19th century. She was considered to be th...
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Antique 19th Century German Victorian Prints

Materials

Porcelain

English Transferware Plate in Rhine Pattern Ironstone China Marked J.M. & S
By John Meirs & Sons
Located in Atlanta, GA
19th century circa 1837-1897 English brown and white Transferware in Rhine pattern Ironstone China
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Antique 19th Century English Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain, Ironstone

A Staffordshire Brown Transferware Pearlware Punch Bowl
Located in Katonah, NY
A Pearlware punch bowl with brown transferware showing typical Staffordshire imagery of flowers
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Antique 19th Century English Serving Bowls

Unusual Brown Transferware Staffordshire Pitcher, circa 1830s
Located in Essex, MA
A 19th century Staffordshire pottery brown transferware pitcher with an unusual variety of motifs
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Antique 1830s English William IV Pitchers

Materials

Earthenware

French Transferware Pedestal with Rooster, Cat and Birds
Located in Seattle, WA
charming animal themed brown transferware pedestal featuring a cat on the prowl, birds and a
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20th Century French Platters and Serveware

19th Century Staffordshire Child's Mug Decorated with a Striding Lion
Located in Essex, MA
A charming 19th century English Staffordshire pottery brown transferware child size mug with an
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Antique 1810s English Regency Ceramics

Materials

Earthenware

English Staffordshire Transferware Child’s ABC Clock Teaching Plate, Brown
By Staffordshire
Located in Philadelphia, PA
chocolate brown transfer on an off white ground. Marked Staffordshire, England with a Rd. No. Measures
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Antique 1890s English Aesthetic Movement Toys and Dolls

Materials

Stoneware

A Pair of Spode Sauce Tureens in Brown on White Transferware
Located in Katonah, NY
The design for these Spode pearlware sauce tureens was based on Greek and Roman drawings. Making them involved transferring images of classical figures from a copper engraving onto p...
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Antique 19th Century English Soup Tureens

Staffordshire Victorian Blue Transferware Reticulated Bowl and Under Plate
Located in San Francisco, CA
English Staffordshire blue transferware reticulated basket with matching under plate, circa 1840.
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Antique 1840s Great Britain (UK) Victorian Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic

19th Century Staffordshire Aesthetic Movement Transferware Platter, ‘Gordon’
By E.&C. Challinor
Located in Philadelphia, PA
. The Japonesque ‘Gordon’ pattern is transfer printed in brown on a cream earthenware body and shows
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Antique Late 19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Platters and Serveware

Materials

Earthenware

Antique Wigtownshire Creamery Co Stranraer Stoneware Transferware Pot
Located in Houston, TX
advertising crock is stamped Port Dundas Pottery Glasgow, and is transfer printed in brown. It features the
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Early 20th Century Scottish Edwardian Jars

Materials

Ironstone

English Staffordshire Pink & White Transferware Platter, Exotic Landscape Theme
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A large pink and white transfer printed earthenware platter, Staffordshire, England, circa mid-19th century. A shaped rim with a border of flowers alternating with images of temp...
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Anglo-Indian Platters and Serveware

Materials

Earthenware

19 Pc Johnson Bros Transferware Old Britain Castles Platter Plates Bowls
By Johnson Brothers
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique English transferware china set by Johnson Brothers features the Old Britain Castles
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Antique 19th Century Victorian Tableware

Materials

Porcelain

3 Antique Transferware Platters Grindley Burmah Wedgwood Melton PB&S Honfleur
By Powell, Bishop & Stonier, Wedgwood & Co, W. H. Grindley & Co.
Located in Dayton, OH
Set of three late 19th century brown English transferware round rectangular serving platters. One
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Antique Late 19th Century Victorian Platters and Serveware

Materials

Ceramic

English Brown and White Transfer Coffee Pot (Sheep)
Located in Austin, TX
An English coffee pot with lid and serpentine spout featuring a brown and white transferware design
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Antique 19th Century English Tea Sets

Monumental Brown Transferware Serving Plate, England, 1880s
Located in Milan, IT
Monumental brown transferware serving plate, England, 1880s With original hanging wires.
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Antique 1880s British Aesthetic Movement Platters and Serveware

Materials

Ceramic

Staffordshire Brown Transferware Well-and-Tree Platter, England, 1859
By Copeland Spode
Located in Kinderhook, NY
Large English Staffordshire 'well-and-tree' serving platter having brown transfer 'tracery' band
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Platters and Serveware

Materials

Ceramic

2 Antique English Transferware Oval Platters Scroll Daffodill Grindley 17"
By W. H. Grindley & Co.
Located in Dayton, OH
Set of two late 19th century brown transferware serving platters. One scalloped edge, rounded
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Antique Late 19th Century Victorian Platters and Serveware

Materials

Ceramic

2 Antique 19thC English Transferware Platters T&R Boote Lahore PB&S Chelsea
By T. & R. Boote, Powell, Bishop & Stonier
Located in Dayton, OH
Pair of late 19th century brown transferware serving platters. The oval platter by T&R Boote in the
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Antique Late 19th Century Victorian Platters and Serveware

Materials

Ceramic

2 English Transferware Platters George Jones & Sons Almonds Alfred Meakin Medway
By Alfred Meakin, George Jones & Sons
Located in Dayton, OH
Pair of late 19th century brown transferware ceramic serving platters. One oval platter by George
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Antique Late 19th Century Victorian Platters and Serveware

Materials

Ceramic

1800s Dixon Phillips & Co. Brown Australian Pattern English Transferware Platter
By Dixon Austin & Co.
Located in Philadelphia, PA
in brown on a creamy white body in the 'Australian' pattern. The British were colonizing Australia at
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Georgian Platters and Serveware

Materials

Earthenware

Set of 7 Antique Woods Burslem Enoch Red Transferware Turkey Dinner Plates
By Enoch Wood & Sons
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
1880 in the Victorian style. Each plate is done in a red transferware on a cream stoneware ground and
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Antique Late 19th Century English Victorian Dinner Plates

Materials

Stoneware

Copeland Spode English 'Patricia' Chintz Floral Transferware Dinner Plates, S/6
By Copeland Spode
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A set of six dinner plates in the floral ‘Patricia’ pattern, Copeland Spode, England, circa 1912-1940. Often referred to as the ‘Rose Chintz’ pattern, showing a complex sheet trans...
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Early 20th Century English Aesthetic Movement Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Pair of "Italian Scenery" Brown Transfer Plates
Located in High Point, NC
Pair of 19th century "Italian Scenery" brown and white transferware plates from the Staffordshire
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Antique 19th Century English Victorian Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Wedgwood "Aesthetic Movement" Creamware Soup Tureen
By Wedgwood
Located in Great Barrington, MA
embellished with a laurel leaf finial and handles with hand painted brown enamel trim. The transferware
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Antique 19th Century British Aesthetic Movement Soup Tureens

Monumental Tea Pot
Located in Hudson, NY
large presentation tea pot brown transferware decoration signed: MAILING est
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Antique 19th Century English Tea Sets

Monumental Tea Pot
Monumental Tea Pot
H 10 in W 15 in D 9 in
Antique Empire Transferware Lavabo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Antique mahogany column pedestal with marble inset hinge top covering transferware form mahogany
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Antique 1810s French Empire Pedestals and Columns

Materials

Porcelain, Mahogany

Antique Empire Transferware Lavabo
Antique Empire Transferware Lavabo
H 31 in W 16 in D 18 in
Set of 19th Century English Transferware
Located in Atlanta, GA
Transferware is the name given to a kind of earthenware developed in 18th century England where
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English Dinner Plates

Materials

Earthenware

Measuring Pitcher
By Crownford China Company
Located in Hudson, NY
brown "Calico" transferware pitcher, in a delightful, brown and cream well known floral pattern
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Early 20th Century English Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic

Measuring Pitcher
Measuring Pitcher
H 5.5 in Dm 3.75 in
Group of 19th Century Spode "Greek" Pattern Transferware
Located in Geneva, IL
Scarce brown transferware plates, bowl and serving dish by Spode. In their striking "Greek" pattern
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Antique 19th Century Greek Greek Revival Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

Brown and White Transferware Platter
Located in Stamford, CT
Early 20th century brown and white transferware.   
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Early 20th Century Platters and Serveware

Materials

Ceramic

Brown and White Transferware Platter
Brown and White Transferware Platter
H 12.5 in W 15 in D 0.5 in

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Brown Transferware For Sale on 1stDibs

Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the brown transferware you’re looking for at 1stDibs. A brown transferware — often made from ceramic, earthenware and porcelain — can elevate any home. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect brown transferware — we have versions that date back to the 19th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. A brown transferware is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Victorian, Regency and Georgian styles are sought with frequency. A well-made brown transferware has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Staffordshire, Enoch Wood & Sons and Dixon Austin & Co. are consistently popular.

How Much is a Brown Transferware?

Prices for a brown transferware start at $120 and top out at $2,750 with the average selling for $775.

Finding the Right Serveware, Ceramics, Silver And Glass for You

Your dining room table is a place where stories are shared and personalities shine — why not treat yourself and your guests to the finest antique and vintage glass, silver, ceramics and serveware for your meals?

Just like the people who sit around your table, your serveware has its own stories and will help you create new memories with your friends and loved ones. From ceramic pottery to glass vases, set your table with serving pieces that add even more personality, color and texture to your dining experience.

Invite serveware from around the world to join your table settings. For special occasions, dress up your plates with a striking Imari charger from 19th-century Japan or incorporate Richard Ginori’s Italian porcelain plates into your dining experience. Celebrate the English ritual of afternoon tea with a Japanese tea set and an antique Victorian kettle. No matter how big or small your dining area is, there is room for the stories of many cultures and varied histories, and there are plenty of ways to add pizzazz to your 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 more durable than ceramic because it is denser. The latter is ideal for statement pieces — your tall mid-century modern ceramic vase is a guaranteed conversation starter. And while your earthenware or stoneware is maybe better suited to everyday lunches as opposed to the fine bone china you’ve reserved for a holiday meal, handcrafted studio pottery coffee mugs can still be a rich expression of your personal style.

“My motto is ‘Have fun with it,’” says author and celebrated hostess Stephanie Booth Shafran. “It’s yin and yang, high and low, Crate & Barrel with Christofle silver. I like to mix it up — sometimes in the dining room, sometimes on the kitchen banquette, sometimes in the loggia. It transports your guests and makes them feel more comfortable and relaxed.”

Introduce elegance at supper with silver, such as a platter from celebrated Massachusetts silversmith manufacturer Reed and Barton or a regal copper-finish flatware set designed by International Silver Company, another New England company that was incorporated in Meriden, Connecticut, in 1898. By then, Meriden had already earned the nickname “Silver City” for its position as a major hub of silver manufacturing.

At the bar, try a vintage wine cooler to keep bottles cool before serving or an Art Deco decanter and whiskey set for after-dinner drinks — there are many possibilities and no wrong answers for tableware, barware and serveware. Explore an expansive collection of antique and vintage glass, ceramics, silver and serveware today on 1stDibs.