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Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass For Sale
Creator: Piero Fornasetti
Creator: Minton
Fornasetti ‘Opera’ decorative dishes, vintage pair (ashtrays, wall decorations)
Located in London, GB
Piero Fornasetti, Italy (designer) 'Melodramma' (Opera) series decorative dishes, (dishes, ashtrays, wall decorations) No.2: Pollione (Norma by Vincenzo Bellini) No.21: Otello (Ote...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Ceramic

19th Century Aesthetic Minton Dinner Plates Set
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A set of 12 dinner plates and 3 cake stands by Minton from 1874 featuring mint green borders and beautifully hand-painted butterflies. The 1874 production of these Minton dinner plates corresponds with the beginnings of the factory’s Aesthetic Movement china...
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1870s English Aesthetic Movement Antique 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

1970s Set of Four Mid-Century Modern Porcelain Mural Plates by Piero Fornasetti
Located in Aci Castello, IT
Four 70s porcelain plates designed by Piero Fornasetti especially for Fiat, depicting Torino monuments and cooking recipes. The black, white and gold colors are a mark of Fornasetti ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Set of 5 Piero Fornasetti Mitologia Gilt Porcelain Plates, Italy
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Set of 5, Italian, mid century, small plates or coasters by Piero Fornasetti, made exclusively for retailer Bonwitt Teller. The plates feature the "Mitologia" (Mythological) pattern,...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Fornasetti salt and pepper shakers with an additional container
Located in London, GB
Set of three condiment containers. By Piero Fornasetti c 1950
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Victorian 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 predominant. The piece bears maker's m...
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1860s English 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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1870s Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Majolica

Festive Victorian Minton Majolica Game Pie Dish with Gun Dog
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Minton Majolica game pie dish with liner which features a hunting dog asleep next to a gun, a powder flask and a game bag. Colouration: cream, green, brown, are predominant. The piec...
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1860s Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Majolica

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

Fornasetti hand painted decorative plate, "Tema e Variazioni" 78, made in Italy
Located in Milano, IT
Have you ever wondered who's the woman that appears on the iconic Fornasetti plates? You might believe she's just an imaginary muse, dreamed by Piero Fornasetti. Turns out, she's way...
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1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Ceramic, Porcelain

English Minton Pink & Gold Porcelain Coffee Espresso Cup & Saucer, 19th century
Located in New York, NY
A very beautiful and rare antique English pink and gold porcelain coffee espresso cup and saucer made by Minton expressly for Gilman Collamore ...
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Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Set of 8 Gilted Astrolabe Plates
Located in Paris, FR
Piero Fornasetti 1913-1988 lived and worked in Milano and he was very fond of science. This series normally is composed of 12 designs about astrolabe or "Astrolabos" in Greece which ...
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1960s Italian Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

1970s Astonishing Oval Metal Tray By Piero Fornasetti. Made in Italy
Located in Milano, IT
1970s Astonishing oval metal tray by Piero Fornasetti. Made in Italy It's in excellent condition and is signed at the bottom. Dimension: 20,47" x 16,14" x 1,57 H inches cm 52 x cm 41...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

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Metal

Set of Six Antique 19th Century Hand Painted Minton Earthenware Ceramic Tiles
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
A set of six (one bonus tile thrown in of a double but in bad condition) Victorian hand painted Minton China Works in Stoke-upon-Trent, England, English tiles designed by John Moyr Smith...
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Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Ceramic, Earthenware

19th c. Minton Aesthetic Movement "Aquarium" Fish Plate
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This Minton "Aquarium" plate was part of a fish service which is a rare and sought after pattern. The celadon green ground contrasts beautifully with the vibrant polychrome decoratio...
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1870s English Aesthetic Movement Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

12 Minton French Enamel Pate Sur Pate Artist Signed Marshall Dinner Plates
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This set of 12 Minton dinner plates exhibits the beauty and quality of Minton's top of the line offerings. The acid etched gold border frames the three neoclassical reserves of raised paste gold and beading alternating with three blue reserves hand-painted with overflowing baskets of flowers in the French enamel technique. Most often this decorative technique is misnamed as Pate sur Pate but this technique is honestly French enamel. One reserve on each plate is signed by the artist Robert Marshall...
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1920s English Neoclassical Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Fornasetti “Prospettiva” Architectural Plates, Set of 3, 1950’s
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Please note: the price is for the set of three plates. Three plates from Piero Fornasetti’s “Prospettiva” series. Vintage 1950’s material, not reissued. A beautiful red tint ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Ceramic

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 green and brown mottled leopard spots, each well separated by shells and seaweed, the center well glazed...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Majolica

Piero Fornasetti Capricorn Zodiac Porcelain Plate, The Zodiac Pharmacopoeia
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Capricorn Zodiaci Porcelain Plate, Made for Crinos, #9 in Series, Titled "Gli Zodiaci Farmacopei", The Zodiac Pharmacopoeia. 1960...
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1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Ceramic, Porcelain

19th-Century Majolica Minton Chinaman Teapot
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica figural teapot signed Minton. Modeled as a Chinaman , the tail formed as the Chinaman’s pigtail, his head forming the cover with his hair comb forming the finial. Reference ...
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1890s English Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Ceramic

Piero Fornasetti "Caduceus" Lithograph Gilt Porcelain white and gold Ashtray
Located in Stockholm, SE
Piero Fornasetti "Caduceus" Lithograph Gilt Porcelain white and gold Ashtray. White and gold ceramic ashtray/trinket dish with cigarette slots by Piero Fornasetti, (circa 1950s, Ital...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Set of 5 Small Plate or Coasters in Porcelain by Piero Fornasetti, Italy 1950s
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury a set of five beautiful black and white small plates or coasters in porcelain displaying drawn animals with money (snail, dog, hen, turtle, duck) by Piero Fornasetti. Mad...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca-Motif Vegetable Face Plates
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca-Motif Vegetable Face Plates, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Arcimboldesca Pattern, Set of Twelve, Circa 1955 The 1950s pottery plates with a wide ...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Ceramic

Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca Vegetable Face Plate
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca Vegetable Face Plate, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Number 12, Circa 1960's. The pottery plates are after Giuseppe Arc...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Ceramic, Pottery

20th Century Piero Fornasetti Plates Gilt Porcelain
Located in Epfach, DE
Piero Fornasetti plate, to use as a place plate, dinner plate as well as decoration the plates are in a nice used condition, small abrasions of the gold are not further disturbing bu...
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1970s Italian Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Huge Minton Majolica Vase
Located in Litchfield, CT
Circa 1870, by Minton, England. A gorgeous example of English porcelain, this monumental vase is a Victorian Aesthetic movement tour de force. Majolica by Minton is known for its del...
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19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Arcimboldesca Vegetable Face Plates, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca Vegetable Face Plates, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo, A Pair, Circa 1955 The pottery plates are after Giuseppe Arcimboldo- the design of a face c...
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1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Ceramic, Pottery

Piero Fornasetti Neo-classical Porcelain Green Malachite Cammei (Cameo) Plate
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Green Malachite Cammei Plate, Cammei or Cameo, Circa 1950s-60s From a Set of Five- sold separately. The Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate, named Cammei on ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Green Malachite Cammei (Cameo) Plate
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Green Malachite Cammei Plate, Cammei or Cameo, Circa 1950s-60s From a group of Five. The Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate, named Cammei on the reverse, me...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

19th Century Green Majolica Cake Stand Minton
Located in Austin, TX
19th century oval Majolica cake stand signed Minton.
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1890s English Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Ceramic

Piero Fornasetti 'Pistole' Tray in Silk Screened Metal Italy 1960s
Located in Tilburg, NL
Piero Fornasetti 'Pistole' Tray in Silk Screened Metal, Italy, 1960s. This 'Pistole' tray with a silk-screened image of a selection of antique pistols ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Metal

Set of 6 Porcelain Fish Plates - Minton - Hand Painted
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A great set of 6 porcelain fish plates, made by the English brand Minton. The plates are handprinted with different kind of fish. The set is in great condition. No chips and no hair...
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1910s British Victorian Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

12 Minton Cobalt Blue Gilt Encrusted Dinner Plates, Custom Antique, circa 1900
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An impressive set of 12 dinner or presentation plates by one of the Gilded Age's re known factories: Minton England. This set was custom ordered through the storied New York retailer...
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Early 1900s British Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Enamel, Gold

19th Century English Minton Bombay Flow Blue Oyster Plate
Located in Winter Park, FL
A Victorian Minton flow blue porcelain oyster plate, with six oyster wells, a center well and a large well for crackers. Decorated in the Japonisme...
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Late 19th Century English Japonisme Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Faience, Ceramic

Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Plates, Giostra di Frutta (Merry-go-Round of Fruit)
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Plates, Giostra di Frutta, Set of Six, Numbered 1 through 6, 1955-65 The pattern "Giostra di Frutta" translates as a Merry-Go-Round of Fruit. The plate is...
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1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Ceramic

6 Antique Mintons Porcelain Raised Gold Twin Handled Bouillons / Cups & Saucers
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 ...
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Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Rosenthal Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Plate 12 Mesi 12 Soli Settembre September
Located in München, BY
Fornasetti porcelain plate for Rosenthal - 12 Mesi 12 Soli. Plate No. 9, Settembre September. No damage. Very good condition. Dimensions: Diameter 10,2"/26cm Depth 1,2"/3cm
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1980s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

1970s Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti for Winston White Ceramic Ashtray
Located in Aci Castello, IT
A square white ceramic ashtray designed and manufactured by Fornasetti for Winston cigarettes, it features the famous woman's face that we see in many variations of her iconic illust...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Ceramic

English Minton Porcelain Plates for Rhodes Bros Tacoma, Set of 4
Located in New York, NY
A rare set of four (4) English Minton porcelain plates, circa early-20th century, England. Plates were made exclusively for Rhodes Bros. Tacoma...
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Early 20th Century English Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Neo-classical Green Malachite Cammei (Cameo) Plate
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Green Malachite Cammei Plate, Cammei or Cameo, Circa 1950s-60s From a set of five which are each sold individually. The Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate,...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Arcimboldesca-Motif Vegetable Face Plates
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca-Motif Vegetable Face Plates, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Set of Nine, Circa 1970s. The plates are after Giuseppe Arc...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Ceramic

1965 Vintage Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Zodiac Plate, Astrological Sign Leo
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Zodiac Plate, Astrological Sign Leo, Astrali Pattern, Made for Corisia, Dated 1965, No 2. The plate for the sign LEO is dated 1965 and is numbered...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Minton, A. D. Holland, Hand Painted China Cabinet Plate, U.K, circa 1950's
Located in Chatham, ON
MINTON - Arthur Dale Holland (Artist/Painter, 1896-1979) - Fine and rare vintage bone china cabinet plate - hand painted - featuring a display of fr...
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Mid-20th Century British Romantic Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Gold Leaf

Mid-century Modern Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Appetizer Fish Kebab Dishes and Tray
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Appetizer Fish Kebab Dishes and Serving Tray, 1960s There are four ceramic deep rectangular dishes placed in a long rectangular gold metal tray with handles at each end. The trays together display a single large fish kebab on a skewer with each dish showing one part of the kebab. The kebab holds two different fish, shrimp, lemon slices, olives, egg slices...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Aluminum

Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Cook Plates-Calcutta Minestrone and Corfam Du Pont
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Recipe Cook Plates, Calcutta Minestrone and Corfam A La Du Pont, Made for Fleming Joffe, Silkscreen & Transfer, 1960s-early 70s. These two Piero Fornasetti porcelain plates are from a series made for the Fleming Joffe hide company in New York City. These were originally given as a pair to clients in a box with a cardboard box with a faux hide covering. It is very rare to find two plates staying together like these. Included with the two plates is the paper separator and the original Thank you card...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

12 Heavily Gilt Encrusted Antique Green & Gold Minton England Dinner Plates
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A gorgeous set ! Please click on the pictures to see the detail and enlarge. Heavy raised paste gilding on a vibrant green collar and custom ordered through the fine Gilded Age Retai...
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Early 1900s British Neoclassical Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Gold, Enamel

Vintage PIero Fornasetti Chariot Porcelain Gilded Coasters Barware Set of 8
Located in North Miami, FL
These vintage hallmarked Piero Fornasetti coasters are porcelain with gold. They are of the Roman Chariot design. Marked Fornasetti MIlano Made In Ita...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Gold

Minton Majolica Volute Shell Spoon Warmer
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Minton Majolica spoon warmer which features a volute shell resting on coral. Colouration: yellow, brown, cream, are predominant. The piece bears maker's marks for the Minton pottery....
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1870s English Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Majolica

Piero Fornasetti Zodiac Porcelain Plate, Astrological Sign of Capricorn
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Zodiac Porcelain Plate, Astrological Sign of Capricorn, Made for Corisia in 1964. The plate in black and gold depicts the ast...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Mid-Century Modern Set of 6 Piero Fornasetti Fish Plates, Italy, 1955
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-Century Modern Set of 6 Piero Fornasetti Fish Plates, Italy, 1955
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Ceramic

19th Century Neo-Renaissance Palissy Plate signed Minton.
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century Neo-Renaissance Palissy Plate signed Minton.    
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1880s English Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Ceramic

A Minton Majolica Stag's Head Small Taza in Cobalt Blue, English, ca. 1868
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Minton Majolica Small Tazza formed as a shallow bowl supported by a horn and naturalistic stag's head, with green stylized leaves, the oval base glazed in cobalt, with gadrooned ed...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Majolica

Minton Oyster Plate Cream With Pink Flowers, Circa 1900
Located in Ross, CA
Cream colored oyster plate with a multi colored luster glaze, pink flowers and green tips was made in England by Minton around 1900. The plate has six oyster wells, a center lemon or...
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Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Ceramic

Piero Fornasetti set of eight Monkeys ceramic coasters, Italy 1950s
Located in Milan, IT
Piero Fornasetti set of eight Monkeys ceramic coasters, From the "Ne sont tous chevaliers qui sur cheval montent" series Italy 1950s Original box.
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

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Ceramic

Fine Pair of Minton Porcelain Dessert Plates C.1835
Located in Exeter, GB
A very fine pair of Minton porcelain dessert plates c.1835. Finely decorated with panels of flowers on a yellow ground set within a green ground bord...
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19th Century British Antique Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

1970 Piero Fornasetti "Libra" Zodiac Porcelain Plate Made for Corisia
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Libra Zodiac Porcelain Plate Made for Corisia in 1970. The plate in black and gold depicts the astrological sign Libra with words, i...
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1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Materials

Porcelain

Vintage Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Zodiac Plate, Astrological Sign of Pisces
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Zodiac Plate, Astrological Sign of Pisces, Astrali Pattern, Made for Corisia, Dated 1971, No 8 The plate for the sign PISCES is dated 1971 and ...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 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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