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 quality. First quarter of the nineteenth century. Exquisitely painted with Class...
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
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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 complete with their original saucers, third quarter of the Nineteenth Century.
Porcelain
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 features reserves of Classical mythological scenes with heavy gilt decoration and i...
Porcelain
Antique Royal Vienna Style Porcelain Tea Coffee Set on Tray
By Moritz Zdekauer Austria
Located in Austin, TX
A rare porcelain demitasse coffee set on the tray featuring dreamy portraits of Victorian era ladies. The tray has one large center portrait and four smaller portrait vignettes at th...
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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 incredible raised paste gilding, and to top it off the root beer color of the iridescent g...
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 a mythological subject matter, several different glaze colors are found as well as ...
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. Medium: Porcelain. Dimensions: Height (cup) 4.5 cm, Ø (cup) - 7 cm, Ø (saucer) 12 cm.
Porcelain
$14,000 / set
H 19 in Dm 12 in
Pair of Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Planters
Located in Long Island City, NY
Pair of Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Planters Each urn mounted with bow tied ribbons connected in the front and back with a foliate swags. In late 1...
Bronze, Ormolu
$960Sale Price / set|38% Off
H 8 in W 6.25 in D 4.25 in
Rosenthal Kronach Viktoria German Porcelain Floral Design Coffee Set, 27 Pieces
By Rosenthal
Located in Plainview, NY
1930's Rosenthal Kronach Viktoria Lombul gold trim German porcelain large coffee set of 27 pieces decorated in a floral prink rose motif on white. Each piece is signed Rosenthal Kron...
Porcelain
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
$16,050Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 1.97 in Dm 11.82 in
19th Century Rococo Meissen Germany Dinner Service 28 pieces
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Uppsala , SE
An extensive Meissen porcelain dinner service, from the 1860s. The set features hand-painted "Deutsche Blumen" (German flowers) and insects on "Neu Brandenstein" blanks, characteriz...
Porcelain
Early 19th Century Paris Porcelain Tea Service with Rich Gilt Decoration
By Porcelaine de Paris
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
This refined Paris porcelain tea service dates from the early 19th-century and beautifully reflects the elegance and technical mastery of French porcelain production during the Empir...
Porcelain, Paint
Set of 12 English Porcelain Plates, Coalbrookdale, circa 1850
Located in New York, NY
Set of 12 English porcelain plates, Coalbrookdale, circa 1850.
Porcelain
18th Century George III Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Dublin 8, IE
18th century George III mahogany breakfront bookcase with four astragal glazed doors below fluted frieze and dentil cornice surmounted by pierced swan-neck pediment incorporating car...
Mahogany
$10,370 / set
H 4.73 in Dm 9.45 in
Antique English Sixteen-Piece Dessert Service by Royal Crown Derby Porcelain
By Royal Crown Derby Porcelain
Located in London, GB
This splendid antique dessert service is impressive both for its beautiful design and its prestigious maker, Royal Crown Derby Porcelain, which was appointed the official royal porce...
Porcelain
Set of 10 Antique English Copeland Spode Hand Painted Fruit Plates
By Copeland Spode
Located in Lambertville, NJ
An opulent set of 10 hand painted 9 inch diameter plates, England Circa 1900-1910. These plates with hand painted centers of fruit design with broad gold encrusted borders, Marked Co...
Porcelain
Steuben Amethyst Hand Blown Optic Rib Plates & Stemware Service for 12
By Steuben Glass
Located in Great Barrington, MA
What an amazing collection of Steuben's hand blown amethyst crystal dinner service for 12! All hand blown in the more desirable form of optic ribbing that gives each piece a special ...
Crystal
$3,800 / set
H 11.5 in W 9.25 in D 3.5 in
Antique Garniture English Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Vases by Thomas Steel 19C
By Royal Crown Derby Porcelain
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An exceptionally fine quality rare example of an early Bloor period Royal Crown Derby hand painted porcelain Garniture of generous proportions by Thomas Steel. First quarter of the N...
Ceramic, Porcelain
$36,000
H 10 in Dm 13.75 in
Dinner Service, 86 Piece, Flow Blue and White, Classic Onion Meissen Pattern
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Montreal, Quebec
86 piece dinner service with the marking: "Original ZWIEBELMUSTER, Czechoslovakia", in the Classic Blue Onion, Meissen Pattern, comprising: 24 dinner plates, 9.5" diameter 12...
Porcelain
$7,657
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
$95,800
H 15.5 in W 13.5 in D 6.5 in
Important Meissen Porcelain Groups of Caparisoned Elephants and Soldiers
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in New York, NY
An important pair of Meissen Porcelain Groups depicting "Alexander The Great Concurring India". Modeled with Alexander the great's three warriors/soldiers riding on caparisoned eleph...
Porcelain
$12,000
H 7 in Dm 8.25 in
Pair of English Porcelain Botanical Sauce Tureens on Stands, Derby, circa 1820
Located in New York, NY
Each botanical specimen identified on the respective cover, tureen body and stand. Marked Derby.
Porcelain
$52,545
H 0.79 in Dm 8.27 in
A Worcester (Barr, Flight & Barr) Twenty-Eight Piece Part Dessert Service
By Barr, Flight & Barr Worcester
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Worcester (Barr, Flight & Barr) Porcelain Floral Painted and Gilt Vermicule Ground Part Dessert Service, Painted by William Billingsley. Impressed and printed marks. Compris...
Porcelain
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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