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Limoges Elite Works

Limoges Fish Platter Set with 12 Plates
By Limoges Elite Porcelain 1
Located in Winter Park, FL
green and yellow with gilt edge. Mark to underside: Elite Works Limoges France. (Red print indicating
Category

Early 20th Century French Victorian Ceramics

Materials

Porcelain

Limoges Fish Platter Set with 12 Plates
Limoges Fish Platter Set with 12 Plates
$2,200
H 2.5 in W 23.5 in D 10 in

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Twelve Antique French Elite Works Limoges Salad Plates, circa 1900
By Limoges Elite Porcelain 1
Located in Big Flats, NY
A French antique set of twelve fine china salad plates by Limoges France Elite Works offers shaped
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20th Century French Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Ten Antique French Elite Works Limoges Dinner Plates, Circa 1900
By Limoges Elite Porcelain 1
Located in Big Flats, NY
A French antique set of ten fine china dinner plates by Limoges France Elite Works offers shaped
Category

20th Century French Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Antique French "Elite Works" Limoges Porcelain Green & Gold Oyster Plate Ca 1890
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French "Elite Works" Limoges Porcelain Green & Gold Oyster Plate, Circa 1890-1900. Shaped
Category

Antique Late 19th Century French Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Oyster Plate
By Limoges Elite Porcelain 1
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique hand-painted porcelain Elite works Limoges oyster plate.
Category

Antique Late 19th Century French Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Oyster Plate
Oyster Plate
H 9 in Dm 9 in
Antique Oyster Plate
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Limoges Oyster Plate by Elite Works Unusual Design
Category

Antique 19th Century French Platters and Serveware

Antique French Limoges Porcelain Teal & Sea Green Shaped Oyster Plate Circa 1900
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Art Nouveau Porcelain oyster plate, Signed "Elite Works, Limoges", Circa 1900. Hand
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Two French Limoges Porcelain Plates by Martial Redon
By Martial Redon, Limoges Elite Porcelain 1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Works in Limoges, France. Each antique plate is skillfully decorated with naturalistic, hand-painted
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Antique Late 19th Century French Victorian Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

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Finding the Right Porcelain for You

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.