Porcelain Platters and Serveware

A classic pattern by Cauldon of England which was custom ordered through Tiffany's in many different color ways. We have had the pleasure of offering this beautiful pattern in cobalt...

Magnificent hand painted Herend porcelain potiche in "Poisson" decor, in the classical "Osier" shape. This colorful fish decoration of Chinese origin, charming and chromatically viv...

A beautiful Herend hand painted porcelain two handled platter or chop plate in the fruit and flower patter. Since its introduction in the 1860s this pattern, with its beautiful compo...

12 Cauldon first class steamship or yacht dessert plates, Each one gold encrusted rims with central crest of a red, white and blue with "D" Racing Pennant . Retailed by Higgins & Sei...

A fine antique English porcelain desert plate. By Spode. In the "Pink Ducks" pattern. Depicting a chinoiserie scene of two mandarin d...

Imari hand painted service comprised of 5 dishes which can be used as an ensemble or separately, 20th century. These Japanese Imari porcelain dishes...

Oblong Herend Rothschild Bird serving dish / tray in hand-painted porcelain. Mid-20th century. Measures: 49 x 17.5 cm. In excellent condition. Micro crack in the handle from the pr...

This is a good early English Spode porcelain plate or dish hand painted in the Doll's House pattern, Number 488 and dating to the George 111rd period, very early in the 19th century. The plate is well potted and raised on a low foot. It is well hand painted in burnt orange and cobalt blue enamels in the Doll's House Pattern, No. 488, recorded in 1804. The plate also has a continuous hand painted border pattern to the rim. This pattern is illustrated on a Spode meat dish...

An Art Nouveau plate with stylised floral hand-painted decoration by Cauldon, circa 1905.

This is a fine example of an English George III period, porcelain, Sucrier with cover or lidded sugar bowl, made by Spode all hand painted in Pattern 967, during the early 19th Century, circa 1810. This Sucrier has a beautiful and elegant shape with high loop handles either side of the oval body. The cover has a shaped oval knob...

This is beautiful square dessert plate made by Spode around the year 1824. The set was made in the famous Spode Felspar china, which was a bright porcelain that included felspar rock, making it exceptionally robust and very suitable for large table services. This plate was a spare of a large dessert service that was sold previously. An identical service is on display in the Spode Museum in Stoke on Trent, on the original place where this service was produced. In a wonderful moment of serendipity, I happened to be standing and admiring that service exactly the moment the service this plate belonged to came up for auction - and I won the bid, enabling me to present it here to you! Josiah Spode was the great pioneer among the 19th Century potters in England. Around the year 1800 he perfected the bone china recipe that has been used by everyone ever since, and he was also the leading potter behind perfecting the technique of transferware, making it possible for English potters to replace the Chinese export china, which had come to an end around that time, with their own. This was fundamental to a thriving industry that would last for about 150 years and provide half the world with their tableware. In the early 19th Century Spode also made this "Felspar" porcelain, which was even stronger thanks to a large percentage of the strong felspar rock in the recipe. In the early 19th Century, dinner and dessert services were an important part of the social life of the elite, and particularly the dessert service had to be stunning in order to leave guests with a lasting impression of the wealth and power of the owner. This plate is part of such a show piece. The plate has the printed Spode Felspar Porcelain mark in puce, as well as a hand painted pattern number 3765. CONDITION REPORT The plate is in good undamaged antique condition, with its only flaw being some wear as visible in the pictures. Antique British porcelain...

Limoges, France. Large antique dish in hand painted porcelain decorated with dancing women and gold edge, early 20th century. Measures: 33 x 5.5 cm...