Dinner Plates
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Aesthetic Movement Antique Dinner Plates
Earthenware
Early 20th Century German Art Deco Dinner Plates
Earthenware
Mid-19th Century English Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Dinner Plates
Earthenware
20th Century American Dinner Plates
Ceramic
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Dinner Plates
Creamware, Pottery
Late 19th Century French Aesthetic Movement Antique Dinner Plates
Earthenware
Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Dinner Plates
Earthenware
Early 20th Century German Art Deco Dinner Plates
Earthenware
1950s French Art Deco Vintage Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Faience
Early 19th Century French Aesthetic Movement Antique Dinner Plates
Earthenware
1880s French French Provincial Antique Dinner Plates
Earthenware
1890s French French Provincial Antique Dinner Plates
Earthenware
Mid-20th Century Italian Modern Dinner Plates
Gold
Late 20th Century Danish Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Late 20th Century Danish Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Early 20th Century German Art Deco Dinner Plates
Earthenware
Late 19th Century French Aesthetic Movement Antique Dinner Plates
Earthenware
Early 20th Century English Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1880s English Rustic Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1950s French Art Deco Vintage Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Faience
1950s French Art Deco Vintage Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Faience
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dinner Plates
Ceramic
Late 19th Century German Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Aesthetic Movement Antique Dinner Plates
Earthenware
Late 19th Century French Aesthetic Movement Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1880s French Aesthetic Movement Antique Dinner Plates
Earthenware
Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Dinner Plates
Iron
1820s French Charles X Antique Dinner Plates
Opaline Glass
Mid-19th Century Scottish Chinoiserie Antique Dinner Plates
Ironstone
1880s French Country Antique Dinner Plates
Majolica, Ceramic, Faience
20th Century Dinner Plates
Ceramic
Late 18th Century English Antique Dinner Plates
Earthenware
1870s Danish Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
1870s German Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Silver
Early 1900s Swedish Art Nouveau Antique Dinner Plates
19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Antique Dinner Plates
Earthenware
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Dinner Plates
Creamware
Late 19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Antique Dinner Plates
Earthenware
19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Antique Dinner Plates
Earthenware
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Dinner Plates
Delft, Faience
1980s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Dinner Plates
19th Century American Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Early 1900s Danish Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Dinner Plates
Ceramic
Early 20th Century German Dinner Plates
Porcelain
19th Century French Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1990s Portuguese American Classical Dinner Plates
Silver
1810s English George III Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Late 20th Century Dinner Plates
Silver Plate
19th Century French Antique Dinner Plates
Majolica
1980s Japanese Minimalist Vintage Dinner Plates
Gold
20th Century Southeast Asian Folk Art Dinner Plates
Wicker, Rattan
Antique and Vintage Dinner Plates
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.