Porcelain
1950s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1980s Spanish Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s German Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1990s Hungarian Rococo Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Giltwood, Porcelain
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
1890s Austrian Classical Greek Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Porcelain
Ormolu
1760s English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary French Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century American Porcelain
Ceramic
1820s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1840s English Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1760s English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century German Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century Danish Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century Danish Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Danish Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1860s Austrian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1820s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century Finnish Scandinavian Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 18th Century German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1890s English Romantic Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Wood, Porcelain
1770s English Georgian Antique Porcelain
Ironstone, Hardwood
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century European Rococo Porcelain
Porcelain
1870s German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century Austrian Belle Époque Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Czech Bohemian Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century Dutch Antique Porcelain
Porcelain, Wood
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Dutch Porcelain
Porcelain, Wood
1770s English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Charles X Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Swedish Art Deco Porcelain
Ceramic
Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century European Art Deco Porcelain
Brass
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century European Empire Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Spanish Neoclassical Revival Porcelain
Porcelain
1750s German Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s Swiss Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 2000s English Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1800s French Empire Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s Dutch Antique Porcelain
Wood, Porcelain
Early 20th Century European Gothic Porcelain
Porcelain
1820s German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Regency 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.