Porcelain
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century French French Provincial Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century English Edwardian Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century German Biedermeier Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain
1810s English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
1920s German Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century German Rococo Revival Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Austrian Victorian Antique Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain
1760s English Georgian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s European Empire Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Austrian Folk Art Porcelain
Ceramic, Majolica
Early 20th Century German Classical Greek Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Macanese Art Nouveau Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Austrian Folk Art Porcelain
Ceramic, Majolica
Late 19th Century French Baroque Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century German Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Danish Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century German Rococo Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1870s German Baroque Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Japonisme Porcelain
Porcelain
1970s English Victorian Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Porcelain
1880s Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1920s English Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century American Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Chinese Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century Georgian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century Central American American Classical Porcelain
Porcelain
1970s American Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Porcelain, Oak
Early 20th Century Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Asian Chinese Export Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1920s German Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Austrian Classical Greek Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s German Romantic Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
1850s French Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1920s Chinese Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Danish Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century German Porcelain
Porcelain
1860s French Antique Porcelain
Ormolu
19th Century Austrian Regency Antique Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain
1860s German Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1980s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage 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.