$500
H 4.73 in W 5.91 in D 5.91 in
Antique Sevres Style Paris Porcelain Gilt Tea Cup Saucer Alexander Great Dante
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An exceptional French Paris porcelain tea cup complete with its original undertray, of outstanding
Ceramic, Porcelain
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H 3.55 in W 5.12 in D 5.12 in
Antique Austrian Royal Vienna Sevres Style Chocolate Tea Cup Saucer Cobalt Blue
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An exceptional Vienna porcelain hand decorated miniature chocolate cup with cover and circular stand of exhibition quality, of cylindrical form with bracket handle, circa last quarte...
Ormolu
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H 4.53 in W 2.56 in D 6.01 in
Antique Austrian Royal Vienna Sevres Style Chocolate Tea Cup Saucer Cobalt Blue
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An exceptional Vienna Porcelain hand decorated chocolate cup with cover and circular stand of outstanding workmanship, of cylindrical form with bracket handle, circa last quarter of ...
Ormolu
Antique Czech Classical Pictorial and Gilt Royal Vienna Porcelain Tea Set
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Czechoslovakian hand-painted and gilt pictorial porcelain Royal Vienna eight piece tea set
Porcelain
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H 2.37 in W 5.52 in D 5.52 in
Austrian Royal Vienna Mythological Themed Angelica Kauffman Tea Cup Saucer 19ct
By Angelica Kauffmann
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An Exceptionally Fine Set of TEN Austrian Royal Vienna Porcelain comprising of ten tea cups
Porcelain
Antique Royal Vienna Style Porcelain Tea Coffee Set on Tray
By Moritz Zdekauer Austria
Located in Austin, TX
. All pieces have the Royal Vienna beehive mark, also present is the Moritz Zdekauer mark. Set includes
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H 6.5 in W 9.5 in D 6 in
Worlds Most Beautiful Tea Set Royal Vienna Style with Portraits circa 1900
Located in Redding, CA
This is it the worlds most beautiful tea set in Vienna style with portraits and the most
Royal Vienna Covered Can and Saucer with Mythological Subject, 19th Century
Located in Redding, CA
A wonderful example of Royal Vienna porcelain, a covered can and saucer Beautifully painted with
Vienna Soft Paste Gilt Porcelain Tea Cup with Saucer, Early 19th Century
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in Brussels, BE
Soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer. Provenance: Vienna, Austria. Period: Early 19th century
Porcelain
$7,200 / set
H 1 in Dm 10.38 in
12 Coalport for Tiffany 1899 Gold, Ivory and Cobalt Blue Dinner Plates
By Coalport for Tiffany
Located in Great Barrington, MA
A set of 12 rare Coalport, made for Tiffany and Co. dinner plates featuring six alternating reserves of two colors of cobalt blue enamel with profuse raised paste gold overlay. The p...
Porcelain
Set of 14 Antique French Porcelain Dishes
By Edmé Samson
Located in Katonah, NY
A set of 14 antique French porcelain dishes made in the last quarter of the 19th century circa 1870-1880. Attributed to the factory of Edme Samson. The set contains 12 octagonal dish...
Porcelain
Antique Meissen Porcelain Floral Encrusted Tea Cup & Saucer
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Atlanta, GA
Meissen, Germany, late 19th to early 20th century Hard-paste porcelain, hand-painted with polychrome enamels and gilt accents, applied porcelain flowers, five small knop feet. ...
Porcelain
$185,000 / set
H 12 in W 12 in D 10 in
A 200 Plus Set of 19 Century Imperial Russian Silver Flatware by Andrei Bragin
By Andrei Bragin
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An exceptional and extremely rare set of a combination of silver and vermeil (gilded silver) flatware designed and crafted in St Petersburg Russia by Andrei Stepanovich Bragin d...
Silver, Vermeil
$7,743
H 6.11 in W 20.87 in D 17.72 in
Large Sèvres Porcelain Tea Service, 19th Century, Napoleon III Period.
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Important Sèvres porcelain tea service, 19th century, Napoleon III period. 19th century tea service, Napoleon III period, in Sèvres porcelain, in its box. Box: H: 15.5 cm, W: 53 cm,...
Porcelain
$1,250 / set
H 2.88 in Dm 5.13 in
6 Antique Mintons Porcelain Raised Gold Twin Handled Bouillons / Cups & Saucers
By Minton
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine set of 6 richly gilt porcelain bullion or tea cups. By Mintons. In an Aesthetic Movement numbered pattern with raised gold and gold jeweling throughout. Each marked to the ...
Porcelain
$1,000Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 6 in W 6 in D 12 in
Fine 4 Pc, Spode Porcelain Rust and Gilt Personal Tea Service C. 1820
By Spode
Located in Atlanta, GA
Spode (English, founded 1770), circa 1820. An extremely fine quality and rare personal tea service in rust and gold. The surfaces are decorated in an imari style pallet - laurel leaf...
Porcelain
19th Century Meissen Porcelain 'Elements' Ewer Emblematic of Water
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in New York, NY
A 19th century Meissen porcelain 'Elements' ewer emblematic of water. Blue crossed swords mark. The present ewer, representing water, is after the set modelled by Johann Joachim Ka¨n...
Porcelain
18th Century Meissen Marcolini Silhouette Cup and Saucer
By Meissen Porcelain, Gottlob Samuel Mohn
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A Meissen porcelain cup and saucer from the Marcolini period, dating around 1795, decorated with silhouette designs attributed to Samuel Mohn. In 1774, Saxon court minister Count Ca...
Porcelain
Meissen Porcelain Pot-Pourri Vase, Germany, 19th Century
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Meissen porcelain pot-pourri vase, Germany, 19th century.
Porcelain
Set of 8 Porcelain Allegorical Scene Plates
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in Norwood, NJ
An elaborate set of 8 Continental porcelain hand painted cabinet plates with cobalt and gold borders. The plates measure 10.88 inches in diameter and depict 8 different allegorical s...
Ceramic, Porcelain
Tiffany & Co. San Lorenzo Silver Flatware Service, 248 Pieces
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in New Orleans, LA
This extensive 248-piece sterling silver flatware service was crafted by the legendary Tiffany & Co. in the classic San Lorenzo pattern. Inspired by and named after the famous Fl...
Sterling Silver
$66,011
H 27.5 in W 19 in D 18 in
Very Large Regency Period Solid Silver Lidded Dish by Barnard with Provenance
By Rebecca Emes & Edward Barnard 1
Located in London, GB
An Exceptional Domed Serving Dish By Rebecca Emes & Edward Barnard of London Bearing the Coat-of-Arms and Monogram of Sir Moses Haim Montefiore Of exceptional size, fantastic quali...
Silver
$1,250 / set
H 2.75 in Dm 5.5 in
Set of Six 18th Century Flight Worcester Porcelain Tea Cups and Saucers
By Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A set of six antique Flight Worcester porcelain cups and saucers. Each with a ribbed swirl design and cobalt blue and gold floral sprig and garland decoration. Each base is mar...
Porcelain
$43,800 / set
H 29 in W 14.5 in D 8.5 in
Monumental Pair of French Paris Porcelain Botanical Painted Vases with Rams Head
By Jacob Petit
Located in New York, NY
A monumental and palace size pair of green Paris porcelain vases exquisitely hand-painted with botanical still life panel on one side and lovers in a royal garden on the reverse. The...
Rare & Early Jupe Expanding Dining Table by Johnstone & Jeanes
By Johnstone, Jeanes & Co.
Located in London, GB
A Rare 'Jupe's' Extensible Mechanical Action Circular Dining Table By Johnstone & Jeanes of New Bond Street Together with its original Leaf Cabinet By Johnstone & Jeanes Constructe...
Mahogany
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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