Porcelain
19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Opaline Glass
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Porcelain
1930s Danish Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century Italian Antique Porcelain
Paste, Porcelain
19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Antique Porcelain
19th Century English Napoleon III Antique Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Bronze
20th Century German Rococo Porcelain
Early 1900s English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Ceramic
Mid-19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Onyx, Bronze
19th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
19th Century Belgian Arts and Crafts Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century German Porcelain
Paint, Porcelain
19th Century French Empire Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Paste, Porcelain
1780s French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Paint, Porcelain
Early 20th Century Austrian Porcelain
Ceramic
19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Antique Porcelain
Ironstone, Porcelain
Early 20th Century English Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Enamel
20th Century English Porcelain
19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Paste, Porcelain
19th Century French Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s Japanese Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Danish Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s French Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1810s Austrian Classical Greek Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1970s French Other Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1870s French Napoleon III Antique Porcelain
Porcelain, Giltwood
1810s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1980s British Vintage Porcelain
Enamel
Early 1900s Austrian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1790s English George III Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s Czech Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1880s Austrian Classical Greek Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1890s English Belle Époque Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1820s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1880s German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Danish Porcelain
1780s French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Bronze
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.