Porcelain
19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1890s English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century Chinese Qing Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s English Aesthetic Movement Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1880s Danish Empire Antique Porcelain
1890s Danish Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1990s American Post-Modern Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain
18th Century and Earlier Chinese Antique Porcelain
Brass
1980s German Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Early 1900s French Antique Porcelain
19th Century Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1820s English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1890s English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1830s French Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Ormolu
19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Ironstone
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Porcelain
Majolica
19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Porcelain, Paste
19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Gold Leaf
Late 19th Century Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Ormolu
Mid-19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century British Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain, Paste
Early 19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century English Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century British Antique Porcelain
Gold
Early 20th Century German Porcelain
Porcelain, Paste
1960s German Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Danish Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Danish Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1840s English Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Danish Porcelain
Porcelain
1910s German Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1790s English George III Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century German Romantic Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1810s English George III Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century German Baroque Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1850s Austrian Biedermeier Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1870s German Romantic Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
1780s French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century German Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s Austrian Other Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-18th Century French Rococo 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.