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Meissen Bird Insect

Meissen Marcolini Reticulated Plate with Bird and Insect Decoration
Meissen Marcolini Reticulated Plate with Bird and Insect Decoration

Meissen Marcolini Reticulated Plate with Bird and Insect Decoration

By Meissen Porcelain

Located in Basildon, GB

Meissen Marcolini Reticulated Plate with Bird and Insect Decoration, dating from the Marcolini

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Antique Late 18th Century German Rococo Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Meissen Tea Solitair, Bird & Insect Painting and Gold, Germany, Circa 1820
Meissen Tea Solitair, Bird & Insect Painting and Gold, Germany, Circa 1820

Meissen Tea Solitair, Bird & Insect Painting and Gold, Germany, Circa 1820

By Meissen Porcelain

Located in Vienna, AT

decorated with colourfully painted bird motifs – two or three birds in branches rising from the ground

Category

Antique 1820s German Rococo Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Meissen, Germany. Open lace porcelain plate with bird motif and insects
Meissen, Germany. Open lace porcelain plate with bird motif and insects

Meissen, Germany. Open lace porcelain plate with bird motif and insects

Located in København, Copenhagen

Meissen, Germany. Open lace porcelain plate. Hand-painted with a bird motif and insects, gold trim

Category

Early 20th Century German Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Meissen, Germany. Open lace porcelain plate with bird motif and insects
Meissen, Germany. Open lace porcelain plate with bird motif and insects

Meissen, Germany. Open lace porcelain plate with bird motif and insects

Located in København, Copenhagen

Meissen, Germany. Open lace porcelain plate. Hand-painted with a bird motif and insects, gold trim

Category

Early 20th Century German Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Meissen, Germany. Open lace porcelain plate with bird motif and insects
Meissen, Germany. Open lace porcelain plate with bird motif and insects

Meissen, Germany. Open lace porcelain plate with bird motif and insects

Located in København, Copenhagen

Meissen, Germany. Open lace porcelain plate. Hand-painted with a bird motif and insects, gold trim

Category

Early 20th Century German Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Meissen, Germany. Large open lace porcelain bowl with bird motif and insects
Meissen, Germany. Large open lace porcelain bowl with bird motif and insects

Meissen, Germany. Large open lace porcelain bowl with bird motif and insects

Located in København, Copenhagen

Meissen, Germany. Large open lace porcelain bowl. Hand-painted with a bird motif and insects, gold

Category

Early 20th Century German Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

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Large Meissen Splendid Vases With Snowball Blossoms, Birds & Insects, Circa 1850
Large Meissen Splendid Vases With Snowball Blossoms, Birds & Insects, Circa 1850

Large Meissen Splendid Vases With Snowball Blossoms, Birds & Insects, Circa 1850

By Meissen Porcelain, Johann Joachim Kaendler

Located in Vienna, AT

Large, very elaborately decorated crater vase from the Meissen manufactory, with abundant snowball

Category

Antique 1850s German Other Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Antique and Rare Meissen Porcelain Plate with Hand-Painted Birds and Insects
Antique and Rare Meissen Porcelain Plate with Hand-Painted Birds and Insects

Antique and Rare Meissen Porcelain Plate with Hand-Painted Birds and Insects

Located in København, Copenhagen

Antique and rare Meissen porcelain plate with hand-painted birds, insects and gold decoration. 19th

Category

Antique 19th Century German Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Antique and Rare Meissen Porcelain Plate with Hand-Painted Birds and Insects
Antique and Rare Meissen Porcelain Plate with Hand-Painted Birds and Insects

Antique and Rare Meissen Porcelain Plate with Hand-Painted Birds and Insects

Located in København, Copenhagen

Antique and rare Meissen porcelain plate with hand-painted birds, insects and gold decoration. 19th

Category

Antique 19th Century German Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Meissen Porcelain Bowl Painted with Birds and Insects, 19th Century
Meissen Porcelain Bowl Painted with Birds and Insects, 19th Century

Meissen Porcelain Bowl Painted with Birds and Insects, 19th Century

By Meissen Porcelain

Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire

with birds and insects including a moth and butterfly dating from the 19th century. The bowl is painted

Category

Antique Late 19th Century German Rococo Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Antique Set German Dresden Meissen Ornithological Bird Insect Cabinet Plates
Antique Set German Dresden Meissen Ornithological Bird Insect Cabinet Plates

Antique Set German Dresden Meissen Ornithological Bird Insect Cabinet Plates

By Meissen Porcelain

Located in Dublin, Ireland

An exceptionally rare set of four German Meissen ornithological themed porcelain cabinet plates of

Category

Antique Late 19th Century German Victorian Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche

Materials

Porcelain

Set of Eight Meissen Plates, Hand Painted with Birds and Insects
Set of Eight Meissen Plates, Hand Painted with Birds and Insects

Set of Eight Meissen Plates, Hand Painted with Birds and Insects

Located in København, Copenhagen

Set of eight Meissen plates. Hand painted with birds and insects, early 20th century. In very good

Category

Early 20th Century German Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Antique and Rare Meissen Porcelain Plate with Hand-Painted Birds and Insects
Antique and Rare Meissen Porcelain Plate with Hand-Painted Birds and Insects

Antique and Rare Meissen Porcelain Plate with Hand-Painted Birds and Insects

Located in København, Copenhagen

Antique and rare Meissen porcelain plate with hand-painted birds, insects and gold decoration

Category

Antique 19th Century German Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

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Meissen Bird Insect For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal meissen bird insect for your home. Frequently made of ceramic, porcelain and glass, every meissen bird insect was constructed with great care. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect meissen bird insect — we have versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. When you’re browsing for the right meissen bird insect, those designed in Art Nouveau and Rococo styles are of considerable interest. You’ll likely find more than one meissen bird insect that is appealing in its simplicity, but Meissen Porcelain produced versions that are worth a look.

How Much is a Meissen Bird Insect?

The average selling price for a meissen bird insect at 1stDibs is $1,248, while they’re typically $500 on the low end and $257,500 for the highest priced.

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.