Porcelain
1980s English Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century British Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Metal
19th Century Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century British Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Egyptian Revival Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Polish Porcelain
Glass, Ceramic, Porcelain
Early 1800s British Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Pearlware
20th Century Japanese Porcelain
Porcelain
1920s German Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1870s French Antique Porcelain
Ormolu
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Porcelain
1910s English Victorian Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Porcelain
Porcelain
1980s German Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century German Early Victorian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century German Post-Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century French Art Deco Porcelain
Porcelain
1880s English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s German Regency Revival Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Ceramic
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Stoneware
1770s English Georgian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1810s English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1850s German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century French Art Nouveau Porcelain
Alabaster
20th Century Japanese Meiji Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century Austrian Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Enamel
1810s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1810s English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s German Other Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century English Porcelain
Porcelain
1860s German Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1790s French Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Antique Porcelain
Ceramic
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 2000s Spanish Modern Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain, Wood
20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
18th Century German Antique Porcelain
Porcelain, Velvet, Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century German Neoclassical Revival Porcelain
Porcelain
1820s French Empire Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century German Baroque Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Ormolu
2010s Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Austrian Belle Époque Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1890s English Antique Porcelain
Majolica
1920s German Vintage Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century European Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1870s German Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Porcelain, Giltwood
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.