Porcelain





1870s Moorish Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
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19th Century German Rococo Antique Porcelain
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2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
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2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
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2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
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Early 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
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2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
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1870s British Japonisme Antique Porcelain
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2010s Italian Porcelain
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2010s Italian Porcelain
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2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
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2010s Italian Porcelain
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Porcelain
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2010s Italian Porcelain
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2010s Italian Porcelain
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20th Century French Porcelain
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2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
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1780s British Georgian Antique Porcelain
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Porcelain
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2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Porcelain
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Late 19th Century German Antique Porcelain
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Late 20th Century Porcelain
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1840s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
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2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century Japanese Anglo-Japanese Antique Porcelain
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Porcelain
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21st Century and Contemporary European Art Deco Porcelain
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21st Century and Contemporary European Art Deco Porcelain
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
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2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Modern Porcelain
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
1910s German Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
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20th Century Danish Porcelain
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1940s Danish Vintage Porcelain
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century British Porcelain
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Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
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19th Century Chinese Ming Antique Porcelain
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19th Century French Other Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century English Anglo-Japanese Porcelain
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1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Antique and Vintage Porcelain
Today you’re likely to bring out your antique and vintage porcelain in order to dress up your dining table for a special meal.
Porcelain, a durable and nonporous kind of pottery made from clay and stone, was first made in China and spread across the world owing to the trade routes to the Far East established by Dutch and Portuguese merchants. Given its origin, English speakers called porcelain “fine china,” an expression you still might hear today. "Fine" indeed — for over a thousand years, it has been a highly sought-after material.
Meissen Porcelain, one of the first factories to create real porcelain outside Asia, popularized figurine centerpieces during the 18th century in Germany, while works by Capodimonte, a porcelain factory in Italy, are synonymous with flowers and notoriously hard to come by. Modern porcelain houses such as Maison Fragile of Limoges, France — long a hub of private porcelain manufacturing — keep the city’s long tradition alive while collaborating with venturesome contemporary artists such as illustrator Jean-Michel Tixier.
Porcelain is not totally clumsy-guest-proof, but it is surprisingly durable and easy to clean. Its low permeability and hardness have rendered porcelain wares a staple in kitchens and dining rooms as well as a common material for bathroom sinks and dental veneers. While it is tempting to store your porcelain behind closed glass cabinet doors and reserve it only for display, your porcelain dinner plates and serving platters can safely weather the “dangers” of the dining room and be used during meals.
On 1stDibs, browse an expansive collection of antique and vintage porcelain made in a variety of styles, including Regency, Scandinavian modern and other examples produced during the mid-century era, plus Rococo, which found its inspiration in nature and saw potters crafting animal figurines and integrating organic motifs such as floral patterns in their work.