Antique Chinese Silver Export Hand-Engraved Cut Glass Preserve Jar & Cover
Located in Nottingham, GB
The artisan workshop mark is SHANG 尚 which was a Hong Kong mark. It's a butter dish by the way; it's a well-known item from Sincere. ) The vessel features a beautifully cut glass ...
Silver
Rare Art Nouveau ceramic 3-piece asparagus set by Julius Dessler, Austria
Located in Meulebeke, BE
The glaze remains luminous, the modelling crisp, and the markings clear. The small butter dish shows a minor hairline, a typical age‑related flaw that does not diminish the rarity or...
Ceramic
Very Large 10 Pc Antique Victorian Pairpoint Silverplate Quadruple Plate Tea Set
By Pairpoint Silver Company
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Comprising a hot water kettle or urn with integral stand and removable burner, a large coffee pot, a tea pot, a chocolate pot, a milk jug, a creamer, a covered sugar, an open sugar, ...
Silver Plate
Wedgwood Butter Yellow Potpourri or Bough Pot
By Wedgwood, Josiah Wedgwood
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A pale butter yellow Wedgwood potpourri dish in the Neoclassical style, made in the early 19th century around 1820.
Stoneware
Set of 6 Butter Pats Henriot Quimper, circa 1930
By Henriot Quimper
Located in Austin, TX
Set of 6 butter pats or bread dish signed Henriot Quimper, circa 1930.
Ceramic, Faience
Set of Four T. G. Green Pottery Butter Dishes, England
Located in Coral Gables, FL
Here, that familiar kitchen form appears in miniature; each piece functions as an individual butter pat dish, with raised sides that contain the butter and give it a distinct presenc...
Ceramic
Set of 6 Vintage Meissen Blue Onion Butter Pats, Cobalt Porcelain
Located in Coral Gables, FL
Its enduring appeal lies in the balance between disciplined repetition and the individuality of each hand-painted detail. Butter pats were once an essential element of a properly ap...
Porcelain
Vintage Meissen Porcelain Butter Pat with Deutsche Blumen and Gilt Accents
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine signed vintage German porcelain butter pat or small dish. By Meissen. With painted Deutsche blumen to the center and a gilt scalloped rim.
Porcelain
Vintage Meissen Porcelain Cobalt Blue & Gilt Butter Pat with Deutsche Blumen
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine signed vintage German porcelain butter pat or small dish. By Meissen. With painted Deutsche blumen to the center and cobalt blue with gilt accents to the rim.
Porcelain
Antique English Blue Willow Transferware Trinket Dish by Alfred Meakin
By Alfred Meakin
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Their Blue Willow wares remain highly sought after today for both traditional English interiors and layered collected spaces. This particular dish likely dates to the early-to-mid 2...
Ceramic
Vintage 36-Piece Pigeon River Pottery "Ownby" Dinner Service Set
Located in Dekalb, IL
Set Includes: • 8 dinner plates • 8 side plates • 6 bowls (varied sizes) • 6 mugs • 4 handled jugs/mugs • 2 small condiment bowls • 1 salt/pepper shaker • 1 covered butter/crock dish...
Ceramic
Art Deco Set 4 Hand Forged Aluminum Buenilum Serving Pieces, Buehner Wanner 40s
By Frederic Buehner-Wanner, Buenilum
Located in Miami, FL
MEASUREMENTS: Butter/ Cheese dish - 6 3/8 inches diameter x 3 1/2 inches high w. top Large covered bowl -10 3/4 inches diameter x 6 inches high w. top - bowl alone 2 3/4 inches high ...
Aluminum, Aluminum Alloy
$60 / item
Classic Indian Recipes
Located in New York, NY
Readers will find an array of homemade meals – including vegetarian options – along with sumptuous feasting dishes and festive sweets, each accompanied by a lively headnote and stunn...
Paper
William Spratling Butterdish
By William Spratling
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
William Spratling, known as the founder of the modern mexican silver movement, this piece was created with ebony simulating a boat shape and sterling silver dish for the butter and d...
Sterling Silver
Midcentury Danish Stoneware Candlestick Set by Jens Harald Quistgaard, 1960s
By Jens Quistgaard
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Dinner set consisting of an oblong serving tray or dish, a butter storage unit with a teak lid, and two candleholders (one for a small candle and one for a regular sized candle.)
Stoneware
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.
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