Porcelain
1960s German Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s Hungarian Bohemian Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century Japanese Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century French Art Deco Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 18th Century French Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1970s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century Danish Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century English Victorian Porcelain
Ceramic
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Porcelain
Ceramic, Paint
20th Century German Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary European Art Deco Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century Japanese Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1980s European Post-Modern Vintage Porcelain
Earthenware
2010s Chinese Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Danish Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century French Porcelain
Porcelain
1910s English Neoclassical Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1810s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Ceramic
2010s North American Minimalist Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1910s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century Spanish Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
18th Century Chinese Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century German Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 18th Century German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s Russian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Ceramic
Late 20th Century German Post-Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1920s German Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century French Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century German Renaissance Antique Porcelain
Pewter
2010s American Minimalist Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain
Late 20th Century German Minimalist Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s American Minimalist Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain
1980s French Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain, Abalone
19th Century French Georgian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 18th Century Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century Danish Neoclassical 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.