Christian Dior Malachite Porcelain Plates, Pair
By Christian Dior
Located in New York, NY
Plates can be used every day (breakfast, lunch, dinner), for entertaining, add to a current set, or add to make a great table scape/mix-and-match plates on a dining table.
Porcelain
Christian Dior - Rare Asparagus Serving Set, 10 pieces
By Christian Dior
Located in Beaune, FR
A rare and magnificent porcelain dinner service "Made in Italy" created for the House of Dior.
Ceramic
Limoges, France. Six Rare Christian Dior "Spring" Porcelain Dinner Plates
Located in København, Copenhagen
Limoges, France. Six rare Christian Dior "Spring" porcelain dinner plates decorated with ribbon and bow. 1980s.
Porcelain
Set of Seven Christian Dior Renaissance Fine China Porcelain Dinner Plates
By Christian Dior
Located in West Hartford, CT
Rare, coveted and out of production Christian Dior fine porcelain china. The pattern is Renaissance and it features the famed blue and gold scrolls and floral rim. The set was in pr...
Porcelain
Ceramic Dinner Service Signed Christian Dior, France, 1960s
By Christian Dior
Located in Paris, Ile-de-France
A ceramic "Majolique" dinner service, by Christian Dior. In the style of Montelupo ceramic (17th century production, near Florence, Italy).
Ceramic, Faience
Sold
H 0.75 in Dm 11.13 in
Set 9 Rosenthal Dinner Plates Die Zauberflötte The Magic Flute, Bjørn Wiinblad
By Bjorn Wiinblad, Rosenthal
Located in Miami, FL
REEDUCED FROM $2,500....Rosenthal Studio linie by Bjørn Wiinblad, Die Zauberflöte pattern set of 9 dinner plates.
Porcelain
Sold
H 0.5 in Dm 11 in
60 Pc Christian Dior Gaudron White & Gold China Set Plates Bowls Tea Cups Rings
By Christian Dior
Located in Dayton, OH
The Gaudron-Onyx (Gold Trim) dinner wear pattern was released by the brand Christian Dior in 1991. After almost 8 years, they stopped the manufacturing of the pattern in 1999. The pa...
Porcelain
Christian Dior Ambassadior Fine China Tableware 12 Place Setting, 64 Pieces
By Christian Dior
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Includes: (not all pictured) 18 soup bowls. 12 salad plates. 12 dinner plates. Two large round serving bowls.
Porcelain
Sold
H 0.12 in Dm 10.87 in
Casablanca China Set by Christian Dior Fou-Piece Place Setting Service for 12
By Christian Dior
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The design features leopards and palm trees on a elegant white china. Includes: Dinner plate 10 7/8" Salad plate 8 1/4" Cup and saucer 2 1/4" This set has barely been us...
Porcelain
$7,743
H 1.38 in Dm 9.22 in
18th Century Meissen Set 12 Baroque Porcelain Dining Dishes with Floral Decor
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Brescia, IT
This baroque dining colorfully dishes set is eclectical and drawn with vibrant colors. The board is in a contemporary fuchsia color. Precious, fine, elegant and timeless dining set...
Meissen
Chinese Famille Noir Mille Fleur Assembled Service
Located in Austin, TX
A large assembled set of Chinese porcelain mille fleur wares. The set featuring a full tea service, as well as various plates, cups, and saucers. All piece in the mille fleur, or tho...
Porcelain
Russian 88 Silver And Jade Amethyst Letter Opener
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Russian Neoclassical paper knife or letter opener in the style of a Roman gladius sword. The blade is made of polished nephrite jade stone. Pink guilloche enamel handle with gilt a...
Jade, Silver
$15,000
H 13.19 in W 6.7 in D 5.52 in
Magnificent Large Vanadinite Table top, Decorative Sculpture object
Located in London, GB
An exceptional large specimen of vanadinite from Morocco, covered entirely with brilliant, deep red crystals of varying sizes. The crystals are densely packed together, forming a con...
Crystal, Rock Crystal, Quartz
20th Century Italian Rococo Bird Cage, Hand-Painted Metal & Wood
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Venetian style (20th Cent) octagonal shaped painted and decorated metal and wood bird cage with 8 upholstered seat and back cushions around base. (Franco Zefferelli Collection)
Metal
$7,791Sale Price|20% Off
H 28.5 in W 42.5 in
Fine 18th Century Italian Classical Huge Oil Painting Figures Animals Landscape
By Jan Frans van Bloemen (Orizzonte)
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figures & Animals in Classical Landscape circle of Jans Frans Van Bloemen (Orizzonte 1662 - 1749), unsigned oil on canvas, framed framed: 28.5 x 42.5 inches canvas: 19 x 34 inches P...
Oil
$8,800 / set
H 0.5 in Dm 10.75 in
Christian Dior Casablanca Dinnerware Set ~ 8 Place Settings / 40 pieces
By Christian Dior
Located in New York, NY
A set of 8 (eight) place settings (40 total pieces) in the signature Casablanca pattern by Christian Dior. Features a white, gold and multicolor pattern with panther and palm tree m...
Porcelain
$16,483 / 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, hand carved and hand finished in an off-white, antique finish. Takes a mattress size: 90cm x 200cm (3ft x 6ft6'). The beds come with an extra set of legs, ...
Wood
Porcelain Transfer Decorate / Gilt Dinner Service Plate For 11 People
By Coronet
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Dine in timeless elegance with our Porcelain Painted and Gilt Floral Bouquet Decorated Set of Eleven Dinner Plates, a stunning creation from the mid-20th century by Coronet Chinaware...
Porcelain
$16,082
H 9 in W 9.5 in D 3 in
A pair of branches of Mediterranean red coral (Corallium Rubrum), Sicily 1790
Located in Milan, IT
Pair of large branches of Mediterranean red coral (Corallium Rubrum). Gilt bronze bases with phytomorphic calyx stem. Connection with an oval element in Lapis Lazuli and two spirals ...
Lapis Lazuli, Bronze
English Scenic Porcelain Dessert Service, Mid-19th Century
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
English Scenic porcelain Dessert service, mid-19th century, polychrome hand-painted with three various romantic landscape scenes in a round cartouches on a pink border, decorated wit...
Porcelain
$18,060 / 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
Large and Assembled Wedgwood 'Wreathed Shell' Part Dessert Service, circa 1815
By Wedgwood
Located in New York, NY
"Conchological, each shaped based on that of a real shell and enriched in shades of pink, yellow and iron red. Literature: Robin Reilly, Wedgwood Vol. II, Page 25 Fig 13 and 14. 1 Ar...
Pearlware
$38,900
H 10 in W 13.5 in D 8 in
Extensive 19th Century Meissen Porcelain Dinnerware Service For Twelve People
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Tarry Town, NY
An exceptional and extensive antique Meissen porcelain dinner service, made in Germany in the 19th century by the renowned Meissen manufactory. This complete and elegant service is d...
Porcelain
$61,948Sale Price|20% Off
H 104.34 in W 153.55 in D 19.69 in
Antique Pharmacy Cabinet, Walnut Bookcases and Glass Doors with Sign, '800 Italy
Located in Cuneo, Italy (CN)
Complete antique pharmacy cabinet, with 3 open bookcases on the sides, 1 bookcase with drawers and 2 original doors with glass and enameled mirror sign. Built in the mid-19th century...
Glass, Walnut
Nymphenburg Porcelain Pearl King's Service for 12 Königsservice Perl 70 pieces
By Dominikus Auliczek, Nymphenburg Porcelain
Located in Lausanne, CH
Pearl Service also known as Bavarian Royal Service. A dinner service for 12 people, by the Royal Nymphenburg porcelain factory, designed circa 1792 by court sculptor Dominik Aulicze...
Porcelain
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.