Porcelain
Early 18th Century Japanese Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Aesthetic Movement Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Porcelain
Ceramic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Porcelain
Ceramic
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain
Early 20th Century Belgian Art Deco Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Danish Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Qing Porcelain
Porcelain
1970s French Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary European Art Deco Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 18th Century German Baroque Antique Porcelain
Meissen
20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Porcelain
Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 2000s Porcelain
Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century English Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century French Art Deco Porcelain
Bronze
1720s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1750s British George II Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1970s Vintage Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Japanese Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century Austrian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Antique Porcelain
2010s Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
1770s English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Porcelain
1970s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain
Ceramic
1890s German Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century Neoclassical Revival Antique Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain
1970s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Chinese Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Turkish Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
1910s German Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1880s German Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
18th Century German Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Porcelain
1920s German Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Japanese Post-Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century British Regency Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Finnish Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
1980s Hungarian Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
18th Century Chinese Chinese Export 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.