19th c. Spode "Tumbledown Dick" Dessert Service on White Ground
By Spode
Located in Great Barrington, MA
Not the typical colorway of Spode's wonderful "Tumbledown Dick" pattern, this is painted on a white ground, givng it great versatility and bold contrast.The set consists of 10 desser...
Porcelain
Exceptional 19th C. Spode "Tumbledown Dick" Dessert Service
Located in Great Barrington, MA
Extensive Spode dessert service in the popular "Tumbledown Dick" polychrome enamel decorated pattern.
Copeland Garrett/ Late Spode "Tumbledown Dick" Partial Dessert Set
By Copeland & Garrett Spode
Located in Great Barrington, MA
A partial Copeland Late Spode and Copeland Garrett dessert service in the popular "Tumbledown Dick" with polychrome enamel decorated pattern.
Porcelain, Paste
Georgian Plate by Spode in Tumbledown Dick Pattern Number 3716, circa 1825
By Josiah Spode
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a beautiful plate in the Tumbledown Dick pattern, produced by the Spode factory and made of a type of earthenware pottery called Pearl-ware, in the early 19th century, circa ...
Pearlware
19th Century 194-Piece Tumbledown Dick Service
Located in Peterborough, Northamptonshire
The tumbledown dick pattern was produced in several color combinations and also in combination with a marble sheet pattern.
Ceramic
Spode Creamware Plate, Brown Tumbledown Dick Patt. 3716, Regency ca 1824
By Josiah Spode
Located in London, GB
The plate is made of creamware and is decorated with the famous "Tumbledown Dick" pattern on a brown cracked ice ground.
Creamware
Wedgwood Majolica Dish with Strawberries on a Cobalt Ground, 1870, 12 Available
By Wedgwood
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Wedgwood Majolica Strawberry dish, naturalistically relief-modeled with strawberries, leaves, and blossoms, the lip with strawberry leaves and tendrils, with a yellow-glazed rim, on ...
Majolica
$595
H 1 in W 8.38 in D 8.38 in
Antique 19th Century Spode English Porcelain Pink Ducks Pattern Desert Plate
By Spode
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique English porcelain desert plate. By Spode. In the "Pink Ducks" pattern. Depicting a chinoiserie scene of two mandarin ducks surrounded by colorful aquatic pla...
Porcelain
$114,437
H 240 in W 552 in D 120 in
Mid-Victorian Moorish wrought & cast iron pergola or decorative garden structure
Located in London, GB
A monumental Moorish mid-Victorian wrought iron Pergola or Decorative Garden Structure, a unique masterpiece in High Victorian Ironwork design. Our research confirms it is French, da...
Wrought Iron
Set of 11 Early Spode Ironstone Imari Dessert Dishes Made circa 1815
By Spode
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A set of 11 Imari style ironstone dessert dishes, made by Spode circa 1815. Josiah Spode II began producing stone china in 1813 as an alternative to porcelain. Stone china, also kno...
Ironstone
$187,500
H 102 in W 84.5 in D 22.5 in
Exceptional 19th Century English Chinoiserie Pagoda Display Cabinet
Located in Houston, TX
Large-scale 19th century English display cabinet executed in the Chinoiserie tradition. Constructed in carved mahogany and conceived as a tripartite architectural façade, each glazed...
Glass, Mahogany
Mintons, England. Set of six lunch plates in faience. Chinese style.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Mintons, England. Set of six lunch plates in faience. Chinese style. Decorated with flowers. Late 19th century. Marked. In excellent condition with natural crazing. Dimensions: D 20....
Faience
$3,375Sale Price / set|25% Off
H 1 in W 9.25 in D 8.5 in
Antique English Periwinkle Blue Dessert Service for 16, Spode Circa 1820
By Spode
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
What a lovely service with so many pieces. Made by the re known English factory, Spode and hand written species detailed in script to the back of each piece. This set features a rais...
Gold, Enamel
$33,615
H 70.87 in W 73.23 in D 88.19 in
Bed Tester Spanish Baroque Carved Dark Green & Gilded Leather Superking 6ft180cm
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Rare, Spanish Demi-Tester, Baroque Bed With Carved, Green Painted & Gilded Posts 181cm, 6ft High, Floral Painted Leather Headboard, sold with custom made box spring mattress base, ac...
Giltwood, Paint
$120,000
H 1 in Dm 9 in
Large English Porcelain Imari Pattern Dessert and Tea Service, Spode, circa 1815
Located in New York, NY
Iron-red uppercase Spode mark and pattern 2213. Richly painted in the Imari palette and enriched in pale-blue, green and gold with flowering shrubs and a tree, the border with altern...
Porcelain
18th Century Chinese Canton Enamel Plate
Located in New Orleans, LA
This enchanting Chinese plate, known as Canton enamel, evokes the intrigue and exclusivity of the 18th- century Imperial court. Boasting a magnificent famille rose background hue, th...
Enamel
$7,800
H 14.5 in W 6 in D 5.5 in
Blue and White Dutch Delft Five Piece Garniture Hand Painted 18th Century C-1760
Located in Katonah, NY
This splendid five-piece Delft garniture, made in Holland in the mid-18th century, circa 1760, captures the harmony and refinement of 18th-century Dutch faience at its height. ...
Delft
$2,258Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 1.58 in Dm 11.03 in
Dinner set for 6 (12 pieces) Hand Painted Italian Faience Garofano Faenza
Located in London, GB
Hand painted dinner ware set with Garofano pattern (6 covers - 12 pieces: 6 soup bowls and 6 plates) hand-painted majolica from Faenza, Italy . Created and decorated entirely by h...
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Rare Sevres Art Deco Dinner Service-Jean Luce
By Jean Luce
Located in Great Barrington, MA
Amazing collection of Jean Luce designed and signed Sevres porcelain dinner service. The set consists of 12 dinner plates, 12 rimmed soup bowls, 8 cups and saucers (2 sizes), covered...
Porcelain
$235,606 / set
H 40.56 in W 21.26 in D 21.07 in
Six Imporatant George III 1760 Thomas Chippendale Chinese Pagoda Dining Chairs
By Thomas Chippendale
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer this important suite of museum quality, George III circa 1760-1765, Thomas Chippendale Chinese Pagoda top dining chairs with the original embroidered seat p...
Hardwood
Baccarat Ormolu Cave à Liqueur
By Baccarat
Located in New Orleans, LA
This charming and rare 19th-century cave à liqueur by the renowned cristallerie Baccarat gets a unique twist thanks to its oriental design. Taking the form of a palanquin, the doré b...
Bronze
$14,728
H 16.93 in W 12.6 in D 7.87 in
A 17th century Augsburg ebonized cabinet with painted pietra paesina panels
Located in PARIS, FR
An ebonized wood cabinet with painted pietra paesina panels Augsburg, southern Germany, mid-17th century Dimensions: h. 43 cm, w. 32 cm, d. 20 cm Ebonized wood, inlay of painted piet...
Marble
Set the mood when you’re setting the table. The right antique and vintage dinner plates for the meals in your home can truly elevate the dining experience.
We haven’t had our own plate at dinner for very long. It wasn’t until the middle of the 19th century in Europe that individual dinner plates had become the norm, replacing the platters that diners had shared before them. Innovations at the dining table are believed to have been introduced by Italian noblewoman Catherine de’ Medici, who, when she married King Henry II of France in 1533, brought with her decorative table adornments for meals and fine tableware such as silver forks, replacing the fingers and knives utilized during dinner before her arrival. Italy was a bit faster on table settings, and, thanks to Catherine, tableware such as dinner plates would also replace the wooden trenchers and flat slabs of days-old bread that preceded them.
Today, while enthusiasts of mid-century modern furnishings might pine for vintage mismatched dinner plates — a mix of old and new can be refreshing — presenting ceramic vessels, glassware and decorative centerpieces that matched was once actually part of the point as setting the table became more refined during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And as Fornasetti dinner plates and Chinese porcelain tableware have long held weight as collector’s items and status symbols, your dinner dishes haven’t ever really been merely functional. From antique metal dishes and ornamental earthenware designed by celebrated English ceramics makers Wedgwood, dinner plates are statement-making works that bring elegance and likely stir conversation at your table.
Entertaining is an art form, and the kitchen bar island and dining room table in your space are cherished gathering places where families and friends convene and grow closer over good meals. Browse an extensive collection of antique and vintage dinner plates to pair with these important events today on 1stDibs.
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