Porcelain E Silver Antique
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Late 19th Century German Rococo Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Mid-19th Century German Louis XVI Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1760s English Rococo Porcelain E Silver Antique
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19th Century German Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Mid-18th Century English Japonisme Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1780s English George III Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Mid-18th Century English Rococo Porcelain E Silver Antique
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19th Century French Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Early 19th Century English Georgian Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Late 19th Century French Aesthetic Movement Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Late 19th Century Danish Victorian Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1880s German Rococo Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Late 19th Century European Romantic Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Late 19th Century German Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1820s English Regency Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1890s Italian Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1920s German Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Early 20th Century Italian Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1890s English Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1880s Italian Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Early 20th Century French Louis XV Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1910s English Edwardian Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Late 19th Century European Romantic Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Early 19th Century British Rococo Revival Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1870s English Victorian Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1880s English Aesthetic Movement Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1820s English Regency Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1780s English George III Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Mid-18th Century German Rococo Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1810s English Neoclassical Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1810s English Regency Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1810s English Regency Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Early 20th Century British Arts and Crafts Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Late 19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1780s English George III Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1820s English Regency Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Mid-19th Century German Rococo Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1810s English Regency Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Early 1800s English Regency Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Mid-19th Century German Rococo Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1820s English Regency Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1840s French Louis Philippe Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1810s English Regency Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1850s German Rococo Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1860s German Rococo Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1810s English Georgian Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1830s English Rococo Revival Porcelain E Silver Antique
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19th Century English Regency Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1830s English George IV Porcelain E Silver Antique
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Early 20th Century American Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1890s Italian Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1920s German Chippendale Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1810s English Regency Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1760s English George III Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1810s English Regency Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1810s English Regency Porcelain E Silver Antique
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1810s English Regency Porcelain E Silver Antique
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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.
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