Dinner Plates
Mid-18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Late 18th Century German Baroque Antique Dinner Plates
Meissen
Late 19th Century Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1890s French Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1880s French Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Earthenware
1890s French Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
Early 20th Century American Late Victorian Dinner Plates
Porcelain
2010s English Baroque Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1920s English Late Victorian Vintage Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1770s German Baroque Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1880s English Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Earthenware
18th Century German Baroque Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1860s English Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
Late 19th Century German Baroque Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1870s German Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Silver
Early 1900s Danish Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
19th Century French Antique Dinner Plates
Majolica
Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1880s French Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
Mid-20th Century German Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
Late 19th Century French Rococo Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1880s French Rustic Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1890s French Country Antique Dinner Plates
Majolica
1770s English Rococo Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1890s British Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Early 20th Century French Late Victorian Dinner Plates
Porcelain
18th Century Dutch Baroque Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1890s French Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1890s French Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1890s English Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
Early 20th Century English Late Victorian Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1890s French Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1880s British Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ironstone
Late 19th Century American Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Milk Glass
1890s English Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1910s French Late Victorian Vintage Dinner Plates
Ceramic
Late 19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
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.