Dinner Plates
Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Dinner Plates
Earthenware
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dinner Plates
Ceramic
20th Century Portuguese Dinner Plates
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1920s English Late Victorian Vintage Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1890s English Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1890s English Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
2010s Italian Modern Dinner Plates
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1890s English Japonisme Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
2010s Dinner Plates
Terracotta, Ceramic
1890s French Renaissance Revival Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
19th Century American Adirondack Antique Dinner Plates
Pottery
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dinner Plates
Onyx, Quartz
1920s French French Provincial Vintage Dinner Plates
Earthenware
Late 19th Century American Country Antique Dinner Plates
Pottery
1820s English Georgian Antique Dinner Plates
Earthenware
19th Century American Other Antique Dinner Plates
Pottery
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Dinner Plates
Porcelain
2010s Italian Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Dinner Plates
Pearlware
Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Early 20th Century English Dinner Plates
Porcelain
19th Century English Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ironstone
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Dinner Plates
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century French Organic Modern Dinner Plates
Majolica, Wood, Faience, Earthenware
Late 20th Century Japanese Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1940s French Vintage Dinner Plates
Faience
1920s French French Provincial Vintage Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1820s English Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Dinner Plates
Plastic
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Dinner Plates
Plastic
Late 18th Century Dutch Neoclassical Antique Dinner Plates
Delft
1970s French Empire Vintage Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Plastic
1890s Belgian Rustic Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
Late 20th Century Scandinavian Modern Dinner Plates
Plastic
1890s English Chinoiserie Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1930s French Rustic Vintage Dinner Plates
Faience
1890s English Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Dinner Plates
Pearlware
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.