Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Aesthetic Movement Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1940s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1760s English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Danish Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Danish Porcelain
Porcelain
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Gold
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century French Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1760s English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Ming Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century Thai Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
1850s Czech Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century German Neoclassical Revival Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1920s Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century French Porcelain
Porcelain
1820s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1910s English Vintage Porcelain
Enamel, Gold
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s German Anglo-Japanese Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Stoneware
Late 19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century English Porcelain
Porcelain
1770s English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century German Porcelain
Gold
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
1860s German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1810s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Asian Napoleon III Porcelain
Bronze
20th Century German Art Nouveau Porcelain
Porcelain
1980s English Anglo-Japanese Vintage Porcelain
Gold
19th Century Dutch Antique Porcelain
Gold
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1860s French Neoclassical Revival Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1860s German Neoclassical Revival Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Empire Antique Porcelain
Porcelain, Giltwood
1950s Hungarian Baroque Revival Vintage Porcelain
Gold
Early 20th Century French Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Spanish Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Spanish Porcelain
Porcelain
1860s Biedermeier Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Antique and Vintage Porcelain Dinner Plates, Platters and Serveware for Sale
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.
Add different textures and colors to your table with dinner plates and pitchers of ceramic and silver or a porcelain lidded tureen, a serving dish with side handles that is often used for soups. Although porcelain and ceramic are both made in a kiln, porcelain is made with more refined clay and is stronger than ceramic because it is denser.
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.