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Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass For Sale
Creator: Gorham Manufacturing Company
Creator: Minton
Set of Eleven Minton Porcelain Ball Dinner Plates Made for T. Goode LTD, London
Located in Boston, MA
This is an exquisite set of eleven Minton Porcelain Ball dinner plates. They have a beautiful gold and white arabesque decoration of flowers with...
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1950s English Rococo Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Set of 12 Minton Dinner Plates Decorated with Ribbons of Raised Gilded Jeweling
Located in Boston, MA
This is a fabulous set of 12 Minton Dinner plates decorated with gilt vases of flowers and ribbons of raised gold jeweling. Minton made them for Da...
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1910s Rococo Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Greenbrier by Gorham Sterling Silver Flatware Set for Eight Service Dinner Size
Located in Big Bend, WI
Greenbrier by Gorham sterling silver dinner size flatware set of 54 pieces. This set includes: Eight dinner size knives, 9 1/2". Eight dinner siz...
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1930s American Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Cluny by Gorham Sterling Silver Flatware Service Massive Set with Vintage Chest
Located in Big Bend, WI
The academic nature in which designer Antione Heller looked to the past for inspiration also stems from the Beaux Arts movement. Cluny takes its name and inspiration from a real plac...
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Late 19th Century Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Set of 12 Minton Gold Rimmed Porcelain Ball Dinner Plates
Located in Great Barrington, MA
One of Minton's most popular patterns is named "Porcelain Ball” which features a large diameter plate bordered by a gold and white floral decoratio...
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Mid-20th Century English Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Gorgeous Museum-Quality Gorham Japonesque Yacht Trophy Bowl. 1884
Located in New York, NY
Gorgeous museum-quality Japonesque sterling silver trophy bowl. Made by Gorham in Providence in 1884. Large and round with allover ornament in relief. Horned serpents swim slack-jawe...
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1880s American Japonisme Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Sterling Silver Salad Set, “Angelo”
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a salad fork and spoon by Gorham Silversmiths of Providence, Rhode Island. Hallmarked 1875 in the “Angelo” pattern, they are almost one hundred and fifty years old!...
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1870s American Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

12 Minton England Antique Custom Cobalt Blue Raised Gold Salad or Dessert Plates
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
From the storied Gilded Age firm of Minton, England we have 12 elegant cobalt blue with raised gilding plates that were custom ordered through the retailer Davis, Collamore and Compa...
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1910s British Baroque Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Gold, Enamel

Antique Gorham Persian Aesthetic Sterling Silver Pierced Ladle
Located in New York, NY
Persian sterling silver pierced ladle. Made by Gorham in Providence, ca 1871. Pointed ovoid terminal with stylized leaf and scroll ornament mounted to round stem with reeded bands se...
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Late 19th Century American Aesthetic Movement Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

12 Minton England Antique Custom Cobalt Blue Elaborately Gilded Dinner Plates
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A classic and elegant set of 12 dinner plates with rich cobalt blue collars elaborately decorated in gold in a beaded foliate swag surrounded by two 24 karat gold bands. A nice clear...
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Early 1900s British Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Gold, Enamel

Art Nouveau - Style Sterling Silver Pedestal, Based Vase by Gorham
Located in New York, NY
Art Nouveau-Style, sterling silver, pedestal-based vase, Gorham Mfg. Company, Providence, Rhode Island, year-hallmarked for 1923. Hammered in design and chased with flowers. Measures...
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1920s American Art Nouveau Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Minton Majolica Oyster Plate, Mottled Leopard Spots, English, Dated 1870
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica Oyster Plate, the relief-molded dish with six wells glazed in mottled leopard spots of green and dark brown, each well separated by shells and seaweed, the center wel...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Majolica

Antique Gorham Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Shaving Mug
Located in New York, NY
Art Nouveau sterling silver shaving mug. Made by Gorham in Providence, ca 1900. Round bowl; interior mounted with pierced brush holder. C-scroll handle. Acid-etched flowering scrollw...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Antique William Roger Quadruple Plate Sugar Bowl & Gorham Sterling Silver Spoons
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique turn of the century 13 piece sugar bowl and hanging spoon set, featuring a trophy urn style bowl with etched palm leaves on the body, brackets to support twelve sugar spoons, squirrels in the pierced handles and a sparrow shaped finial. Set includes 11 Gorham sterling silver demitasse spoons in the New Queens pattern (introduced 1895); sold by J.E. Caldwell & Co. Bowl and lid by William Rogers (cross and keystone mark, circa 1900-1910), design number 57. "Gorham Silver was founded in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1831 by Jabez Gorham, a master craftsman, in partnership with Henry L. Webster. The firm's chief product was spoons of coin silver, but also made thimbles, combs, jewelry, and other small items. In 1865, the Rhode Island legislature granted a charter in the name of Gorham Manufacturing Company. During the heyday of American silver manufacturing, approximately 1850–1940, Gorham was highly influential. The company has produced matching hollowware in both sterling and silverplate, as well as running a foundry for bronze sculpture. The White House has used Gorham silver services during many administrations including those of Lincoln, Grant, and George W. Bush. Gorham artisans also sculpted several famous statues housed in the Capitol's Rotunda, overlooking the Museum of Natural History in New York, and topping the Rhode Island State House. Gorham has also designed a number of elaborate trophies for sporting events, including the Borg-Warner Trophy for the Indianapolis 500, designed by Robert J. Hill. The company has changed hands multiple times beginning with Textron (1967), to Dansk International Designs (1989), to Brown-Forman Corporation (1991), to the Lenox Group (2005), to Clarion Capital Partners (2009), now operating under the name Lenox Corporation." "William Hazen Rogers (born May 13, 1801) was an American master silversmith and a pioneer in the silver-plate industry and whose work and name have survived to the present day. Rogers partnered with other silversmiths at times, and his company and trademarks were eventually taken over by larger companies. Rogers was born on a farm on May 13, 1801, to Sarah Reynolds (1777-?) and Asa Rogers (1798-1824). After he left home, he went on to become a silversmith, watchmaker and jeweler. From 1820 to 1825, Rogers was an apprentice to Joseph Church, a silversmith and watchmaker in Hartford. In 1825, Rogers became partners with Church and their company, Church & Rogers, initially manufactured silver-plate flatware and hollowware. He was also partner, from 1832 to 1838, with Asa Harris Rogers, his younger brother, as "A Rogers Jr. & Co." while still associated with Church & Rogers. Rogers – together with his two brothers and, later, his son – was responsible for more than 100 patterns of silver and silver-plated cutlery and serving dishes. Many of Roger's designs were influenced by Louis XIV-style patterns of the 17th and 18th century in France, and he was best known for his Elberon pattern and "Presidential" cutlery series. The companies in which one or more of the original...
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Early 20th Century Late Victorian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Metal, Sterling Silver

A Minton Majolica Ale Jug with Five Revelers in Medieval Dress, dated 1862
Located in Banner Elk, NC
An Early Minton Majolica 'Tavern' Ale Jug, formed as a tapering medieval flagon, the figures molded in high relief and applied, depicting a man and woman dancing, a seated figure wit...
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Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Majolica

Gorham Buttercup Pattern Sterling Silver Large Oyster Serving Spoon
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine large serving spoon. By Gorham. In the Buttercup pattern. We think that this a rare solid oyster spoon. With a shaped bowl and thick gauged handle. Fully hallmarked to t...
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20th Century American Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Game Pie Dish Majolica Minton Victorian Mid-19th Century
Located in Paris, FR
Majolica oval game terrine, featuring a palette of green, blue, brown, and ochre. Adorned with a woven basket encircled by an oak leaf garland, the lid showcases a prominent relief d...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Ceramic, Majolica

Minton majolica game pie tureen with hunting dog, late 19th Century
Located in Paris, FR
This late 19th-century Minton majolica game pie tureen and cover offer a glimpse into the richness of Victorian dining. The cover features a meticulously molded hunting dog nestled a...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Ceramic, Majolica

Sterling Silver Breadbasket, 1911
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a sterling silver breadbasket by Gorham Silversmiths of Providence, Rhode Island. In addition to the sterling and Gorham hallmarks, it is signed (hallmarked)1911. ...
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1910s American Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Sterling Silver Victorian Box
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a sterling silver (soap) box by Gorham Silversmiths of Providence, Rhode Island. It can be used for jewelry, pills or as a decorative piece but I think it was meant...
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1890s American Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Gorham Traditional Sterling Silver Revere Bowl
Located in New York, NY
Traditional sterling silver Revere bowl. Made by Gorham in Providence in 1945. Curved sides, flared rim, and stepped foot. A historic form that can suit many modern uses. Fully marke...
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1940s American Colonial Revival Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

A Set of 5 English Hand-Decorated Minton Fine China Espresso Cups with Saucers
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Set of 5 English Hand-Decorated Minton Fine China Espresso Cups with Saucers. The beautifully vibrant color hand painted small espresso cups and saucers, each single handle cup and...
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Early 20th Century English Edwardian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Minton Dessert Service, Inverted Shell White with Monochrome Flowers, ca 1830
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning dessert service made by Minton probably around the year 1830, in their "second period". The service consists of a high footed centre piece, two square dishes, two ...
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1830s English Rococo Revival Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Sterling Silver Caviar Dish
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered in an antique caviar dish with a cover by Gorham Silversmiths of Providence, Rhode Island. There is a removable disc / surface on th...
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1880s American Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

A Set of 7 English Hand-Decorated Minton Fine China Coffee Cups with Saucers
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Set of 7 English Hand-Decorated Minton Fine China Coffee Cups with Saucers. The beautifully vibrant color hand painted coffee cups and saucers,...
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Early 20th Century English Edwardian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Antique Minton Staffordshire Porcelain Candelabra Centerpiece Cherub 19th Ct
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stunning Example of a single English Minton Porcelain Two Branch Candelabra, modelled as a Cherub holding on each hand an out swept candle holder, seated on an oval base above an ela...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain, Pottery

Unusual Pair of Mid-Century Modern Sterling Silver Candlesticks By Gorham
Located in New York, NY
Unusual pair of Mid-Century Modern, sterling silver candlesticks (having a Danish influence), The Gorham Corp., Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1950s. 5" tall x 2 3/4" diameter at w...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Set 7 English Hand-Decorated Mintons Fine China Soup Consommé Bowls with Saucers
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Set of 7 English Hand-Decorated Minton Fine China Soup Consommé Bowls with Saucers. The beautifully vibrant color hand painted Soup or Consommé bowls, each double handled bowl and ...
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Early 20th Century English Edwardian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Antique English Minton Flow Blue Transferware Floral Porcelain Plate, c. 1880
Located in Pearland, TX
A lovely antique English flow blue transferware porcelain floral plate by Minton, circa 1880. Maker's mark on reverse. Minton was a major English pottery and porcelain factory set up...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Early 20th Century Set 30 English Decorated Minton Fine China Dessert Plates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Set of 30 English Hand-Decorated Minton Fine China Dessert Plates. The beautifully vibrant color hand painted dessert plates, each with a colorful floral design, an intricate trim ...
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Early 20th Century English Edwardian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Early 20th Century Set 36 English Hand Decorated Minton Fine China Bread Plates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Set of 36 English Hand-Decorated Minton Fine China Bread Plates. The beautifully vibrant color hand painted bread plates, each with a colorful floral design, an intricate trim and ...
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Early 20th Century English Edwardian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Early 20th Century Set 34 English Hand-Decorated Minton Fine China Dining Plates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Set of 34 English Hand-Decorated Minton Fine China Dining Plates. The beautifully vibrant color hand painted dinner plates, each with a colorful floral design, an intricate trim an...
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Early 20th Century English Edwardian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Early 20th Century Set 22 English Hand-Decorated Minton Fine China Salad Plates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Set of 22 English Hand-Decorated Minton Fine China Salad Plates. The beautifully vibrant color hand painted salad plates, each with a color...
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Early 20th Century English Edwardian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Cluny by Gorham Sterling Silver Flatware Set for 8 Service 60 pieces Dinner
Located in Big Bend, WI
The academic nature in which designer Antione Heller looked to the past for inspiration also stems from the Beaux Arts movement. Cluny takes its name and inspiration from a real plac...
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20th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

19th Century Victorian Majolica Minton Lily Pitcher
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century Victorian Majolica Minton Lily Pitcher.
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1880s English Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Majolica, Ceramic

Minton Majolica Oak Jug / Pitcher with Snail Handle
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Minton Majolica jug / pitcher which features oak leaves and acorns to the sides and a snail to the handle. Colouration: brown, green, yellow, are p...
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1860s English Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Majolica

Set of 4 Minton Early 19th Century Red Oriental Garden Plates
Located in New York, NY
A set of four (4) early Minton porcelain plates, unusually decorated with a red bat-print of Oriental flowers and bamboo branches, overpainted with colorful enamels and complemented ...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Gold

Sterling Silver “Maryland” Serving Spoon
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a sterling silver serving spoon by Gorham Silversmiths in the “Maryland” pattern, hallmarked 1885. The handle has a floral motif, not etched but raised. The bowl i...
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1880s American Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Sterling Silver “Dolly Madison” Water Pitcher
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a sterling silver water pitcher by Gorham Silversmiths hallmarked 1929. The pattern name is “Dolly Madison” and Gorham manufactured both hollowware and flatware in ...
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1920s American Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Sterling Silver Art Nouveau “Lily” Server
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a sterling silver serving piece by Gorham Silversmiths in the “Lily” pattern. First introduced in 1910, “Lily” aka “Floral” quickly became a favorite among silver c...
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1910s American Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Set of 6 1880-83 Sterling Silver Tablespoons by Gorham
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Set of 6 Gorham's Cluny sterling silver tablespoons, 1880-1883. One of the greatest silver designs of the Aesthetic Movement in America. Obverse monogram "NS". 19.25 troy oz. 8.25" x...
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1880s American Aesthetic Movement Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Minton Majolica Cellini Ewer Jug
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Minton Majolica ewer with a mythological theme which features putti, birds and vine fruits. The ewer has a tapered neck, with mask head and Sphinx handle. Sits on circular fluted foo...
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1850s Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Majolica

Sterling Silver Heart Dish, 1893
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a heart shaped dish made by Gorham Silversmiths of Providence, Rhode Island and hallmarked 1893 (one hundred and thirty one years old)!! It has rich, old-world grac...
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1890s American Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Golden Scroll by Gorham Sterling Silver Flatware Set Place Size Service 48 Pcs
Located in Big Bend, WI
Golden scroll by Gorham sterling silver flatware set, 48 pieces. This set includes: 12 place knives, 9 1/8", 12 place forks, 7 3/8", 12 salad forks, 7", ...
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Late 20th Century Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Antique Gorham Aesthetic Sterling Silver Olive Spoon with Pick
Located in New York, NY
Aesthetic sterling silver olive spoon. Made by Gorham in Providence, ca 1885. Cast stem with entwined leaf and olive. Shallow and pierced bowl with engraved leaves. At other end pick...
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Late 19th Century American Aesthetic Movement Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Minton Majolica 'Bacchus' Vase Cobalt Blue-Ground, English, Dated 1856
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica 'Bacchus' vase cobalt blue-ground, English, dated 1856, of urn-shaped form, molded and applied with three satyr masks, and festoons of pendant fruit, suspending rope-...
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Early 19th Century English Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Majolica

Sterling Silver Platter
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a sterling silver platter by Gorham Silver in the “Cinderella” pattern hallmarked 1925. It has a lovely etched pattern around the edge (2”) with four medallions — t...
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1920s American Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Parian group: Naomi and her Daughters-in-Law. Minton C1880
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of the great parian figural groups. Parian is a form of pottery formulated to simulate marble, and it does it very well indeed. It was used extensively in the late 19th century ...
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Late 19th Century British Neoclassical Revival Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Other

Antique Sterling Silver "Letter"Stamp Case Dated 1892 Gorham Rhode Island USA
Located in London, GB
Antique Sterling Silver "Letter"Stamp Case Dated 1892 Gorham Rhode Island USA Unique Novelty Silver Stamp Case made as a miniature letter sent from ...
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1890s Central American Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Minton Majolica Platter with Lattice Work and Daisy Chain Border, Dated 1880
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica platter, molded in high relief with a central medallion of leaves and a daisy, surrounded by basketweave latticework, with a continuous chain of daisies forming the b...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Majolica

Sterling Silver Basket
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a sterling silver basket. The plate has medallions interspersed with reticulated cutouts. Old world elegance all around the edge. The handle has an etched design ...
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1930s American Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Antique Gorham Sterling Olive Bowl and Tongs
Located in Litchfield, CT
Circa 1884, sterling, Gorham. This unequivocally charming serving piece embodies the relaxed refinement of the Victorian era. Complete with tongs, this rare example of a figural Gorham olive dish...
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1880s American Aesthetic Movement Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Antique English Mintons Porcelain Chinoiserie Waste Bowl Circa 1830
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mintons (English, 1793-2005), circa 1830. A very fine quality antique porcelain waste bowl decorated in a rust ground and heavy gilding. A large pagoda is painted to one side of the ...
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Early 19th Century British Chinoiserie Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Minton Majolica Wheat And Leaves Jug Pitcher
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Minton Majolica jug/pitcher which features corn forming the handle. The sides in the form of banana leaves. Colouration: green, yellow, are predominant. Marks include a factory speci...
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1850s Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Majolica

Victorian Minton Majolica Lily Pad and Flower Jug/Pitcher
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Minton Majolica jug/pitcher which features flowering lilies and lily pads. Colouration: green, white, dark pink, are predominant. The piece bears maker's marks for the Minton pottery...
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1860s Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Majolica

Sterling Silver Candlesticks
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is pair of sterling silver candlesticks by Gorham Silversmiths of Providence, Rhode Island. They are hallmarked 1913 (one hundred and eleven years old). They are Cori...
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1910s American Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Sterling Silver

Minton Majolica Oyster Plate, Mottled Leopard Spots, English, Dated 1871
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica Oyster Plate, the relief-molded dish with six wells glazed in mottled leopard spots of green and dark brown, each well separated by shells and seaweed, the center wel...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Majolica

A Garniture of Minton Porcelain Vases decorated by Thomas Steel c.1830
Located in Exeter, GB
A Garniture of Minton Porcelain Vases decorated by Thomas Steele c1830. Each vase of 'Elgin' shape, finely decorated with a well executed panel of flowers on a marble table by Thomas...
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Early 19th Century British Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Antique and Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Your dining room table is a place where stories are shared and personalities shine — why not treat yourself and your guests to the finest antique and vintage glass, silver, ceramics and serveware for your meals?

Just like the people who sit around your table, your serveware has its own stories and will help you create new memories with your friends and loved ones. From ceramic pottery to glass vases, set your table with serving pieces that add even more personality, color and texture to your dining experience.

Invite serveware from around the world to join your table settings. For special occasions, dress up your plates with a striking Imari charger from 19th-century Japan or incorporate Richard Ginori’s Italian porcelain plates into your dining experience. Celebrate the English ritual of afternoon tea with a Japanese tea set and an antique Victorian kettle. No matter how big or small your dining area is, there is room for the stories of many cultures and varied histories, and there are plenty of ways to add pizzazz to your 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 more durable than ceramic because it is denser. The latter is ideal for statement pieces — your tall mid-century modern ceramic vase is a guaranteed conversation starter. And while your earthenware or stoneware is maybe better suited to everyday lunches as opposed to the fine bone china you’ve reserved for a holiday meal, handcrafted studio pottery coffee mugs can still be a rich expression of your personal style.

“My motto is ‘Have fun with it,’” says author and celebrated hostess Stephanie Booth Shafran. “It’s yin and yang, high and low, Crate & Barrel with Christofle silver. I like to mix it up — sometimes in the dining room, sometimes on the kitchen banquette, sometimes in the loggia. It transports your guests and makes them feel more comfortable and relaxed.”

Introduce elegance at supper with silver, such as a platter from celebrated Massachusetts silversmith manufacturer Reed and Barton or a regal copper-finish flatware set designed by International Silver Company, another New England company that was incorporated in Meriden, Connecticut, in 1898. By then, Meriden had already earned the nickname “Silver City” for its position as a major hub of silver manufacturing.

At the bar, try a vintage wine cooler to keep bottles cool before serving or an Art Deco decanter and whiskey set for after-dinner drinks — there are many possibilities and no wrong answers for tableware, barware and serveware. Explore an expansive collection of antique and vintage glass, ceramics, silver and serveware today on 1stDibs.

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