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Set of Two Porcelain Vases by Yves Mohy for Virebent
By Yves Mohy
Located in SOTTEVILLE-LÈS-ROUEN, FR
A set of two porcelain vases by Yves Mohy for Virebent.
Perfect original conditions,
circa 1970.
Signed under the base.
Vase 1 : H: 10 cms/ P: 5 cms/ W: 15 cms.
Vase 2 : H: ...
Category
1970s European Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Società Ceramica Italiana Di Laveno G. Andloviz Six Tea Cups and Saucer Service
Located in Prato, Tuscany
We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects.
Elegant and delicate tea set in Italian porcelain, composed by 6 shaped cups with shaped saucer; they all have a central miniature, surrounded by pure gold decorations, representing female figures dressed in ancient Roman clothes in a rural landscape; the border is of a nice color between scarlet and crimson, typical of amaranth flowers, ornamental plant; the handle is very elaborate and decorated in gold; on the saucer there are elegantly embossed decorations and others in pure gold. The mark on the bottom (see photo) tells us that they were produced between 1935 and 1940 by Società Ceramica Italiana...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Napoleon III Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Twelve Royal Copenhagen Golden Basket Bouillon Cups with Saucers
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Twelve Royal Copenhagen Golden Basket bouillon cups with saucers.
Model number 595/9571.
Dated 1889-1922.
The cup measures: 13 x 5 cm.
Saucer diamete...
Category
Late 19th Century Danish Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Ovington Fish Plates for Display
Located in Riverdale, NY
Attractive set of fish plates retailed by Ovington from the 1930's, for use only as display as several have chipped edges. 4 out of 6 have chipping but not severe, great for display ...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set of Twenty Four Early Piero Fornasetti Adam and Eve Porcelain Plates
Located in Benington, Herts
A fine set of “Adam and Eve” lithographic transfer printed plates designed in 1954.
Italy Milan - Adamo set of 12 plates circa 1980’s
Italy Milan - Eva set of 12 plates circa 1950/60’s
These were originally part of a private collectors who has kept them in amazing condition.
The Eva plates are very rare as thought to be some of the first to have been produced.
Each plate having printers maker’s marks with leaf and title, numbered 1 to 12 on each set.
Both sets in mint condition ideal for a serious collector.
PIERO FORNASETTI (1913 - 1988)The Italian artist, illustrator and furniture maker Piero Fornasetti was one of the wittiest and most imaginative design talents of the 20th century. He crafted an inimitable decorative style from a personal vocabulary of images that included birds, butterflies, hot-air balloons, architecture and — most frequently, and in some 500 variations — an enigmatic woman’s face based on that of the 19th-century opera singer Lina Cavalieri. Fornasetti used...
Category
20th Century Italian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain Figurine of a Woman with a Goose, Gerold Porzellan, Germany, 1980s
Located in Chorzów, PL
Porcelain figurine of a woman with a goose
Signed Gerold Porzellan Bavaria
Very good condition
Measures: Height: 21cm width: 9cm dept...
Category
1980s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
20th Century Vista Alegre "Fontainebleu" Hand-Painted Porcelain Sauce Tureen
By Vista Alegre
Located in Cagliari, IT
Circa 1980.
Magnificent collectible sauce tureen and saucer in portuguese porcelain Vista Alegre, with hand painted flowers, leaves, festoons and stars in cobalt blue and twenty-two...
Category
1980s Portuguese Louis XVI Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Qing Dynasty Chinese Blue & White Porcelain / Ceramic Plate, c. 1850
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This Chinese ceramic plate is dominated by a blue-grey glaze and features wonderful hand painted blue strokes. Once used as an every day plate it is now a great example of Chinese ce...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Porcelain
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Post-Modern "Kunstlertasse #1" Set by Solveig Samhaber for Rosenthal Studio-Line
By Rosenthal
Located in San Diego, CA
Post-Modern "Kunstlertasse #1" cup and saucer set by Solveig Samhaber for Rosenthal Studio-Line, circa 1980s. This wonderful set is in great vintage condition with no chips or cracks...
Category
Late 20th Century German Post-Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Large Blue and White Arras Porcelain Round Soup Tureen French 18th Century
Located in Katonah, NY
This late 18th-century French soup tureen is decorated with an elegant design of delicate cornflower sprigs.
The color of the porcelain body is creamy white.
The cornflower sprigs, handles, and border edging are decorated with beautiful deep twilight blue enamel.
The makers of Arras porcelain specialized in porcelain painted in this entrancing blue called "Bleu d'Arras."
The combination of the creamy white ground and the blue decoration is splendid!
Natural forms like the tree branch handle and the blue cornflower decorations were the height of French fashion in the last quarter of the 18th century.
This tureen was made at the Arras porcelain factory circa 1780.
Dimensions:10.25" diameter x 9" height
Condition: Excellent, with some small original firing cracks along the outer edge of the cover (see image #3).
Price: $1,900
The underside of the tureen is marked with the letters "AR" and the flying bird symbol of the Arras factory.
On 1stdibs, we also have listed a round tureen made by Arras Porcelain: Item Reference LU866530122692.
Background of Arras Porcelain: The Arras Porcelain Manufactory was started in the 1770s by the family Delemers.
They were a family of four sisters...
Category
Late 18th Century French Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Eleven English Mintons Fine China Floral Garland Porcelain Wide Rim Bowls
By Minton
Located in Big Flats, NY
A set of 11 English Mintons Fine China wide rim bowls feature rim with floral swag and stylized foliate border, central floral spray, en verso crown ...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Late Georgian Derby Desert Dish Heart Shaped Porcelain Gilded Ptn, Circa 1825
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a beautiful porcelain heart shaped Desert dish, hand painted and gilded in a sprig pattern, made by the Derby factory, in the late Georgian period, circa 1825.
This dish has been hand decorated in a French influenced "Chantilly" pattern consisting of scattered sprigs painted in green and gold, with further rich hand gilding around the rim.
The dish has the printed Derby Crown mark, in red together with the "D" below.
A similar shaped Derby heart shaped dish...
Category
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Herend Chinese Bouquet Raspberry, Champagne Cooler and Small Bowl
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Herend Chinese Bouquet Raspberry.
Champagne cooler and small bowl in hand-painted porcelain. Mid-20th century.
The champagne cooler...
Category
Mid-20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Rare Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Figurine, Pekingese, 1920s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Rare Royal Copenhagen porcelain figurine. Pekingese. 1920s.
Model 1453/1662.
Measures: 28 x 8.5 cm.
In excellent condition.
Stamped.
Category
1920s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Empire Style Porcelain Dinner Set for 12 Persons by Richard Ginori
Located in Vilnius, LT
The porcelain set for 12 persons is decorated with cobalt blue/gold decor handmade by Italian porcelain factory Richard Ginori.
Marked: Richard Ginori, Manifattura Di Doccia Florenc...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Art Deco Herend Porcelain Figurine, Cleopatra with Snake, Mid-20th Century
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Art Deco Herend porcelain figurine. Cleopatra with snake.
Mid-20th century.
Measures: 25 x 13 cm.
In excellent condition.
Stamped.
1st factory quality.
Category
Mid-20th Century Hungarian Art Deco Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Early Barr Flight Barr Porcelain Teacups and Saucers
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A pair of early transferware English porcelain teacups and saucers, made by the Worcester Porcelain Factory during the Barr, Flight & Barr ...
Category
Early 19th Century English Country Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Herend Green Chinese Plate in Openwork Hand-Painted Porcelain, Mid-20th Century
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Herend Green Chinese plate in openwork hand-painted porcelain. Mid-20th century.
Diameter: 24 cm
In excellent condition.
Stamped.
Category
Mid-20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Rare Bing & Grøndahl Porcelain Figurine, Lying Cat, Model Number 2236
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Rare Bing & Grøndahl porcelain figurine. Lying cat.
Model number 2236.
Early 20th century.
Measures: 18 x 9.5 cm.
In excellent condition.
Stamped.
2n...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
English Porcelain London Shape Imari Painted Jug
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A fine quality antique English porcelain, possibly Coalport, London shape sauce jug decorated in an Imari pattern and dating from around 1810. The sauce jug is lightly potted and is ...
Category
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bjørn Wiinblad, Rosenthal, Lotus Porcelain Service, 9 Coffee Cups with Saucers
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Bjørn Wiinblad for Rosenthal. Lotus porcelain service.
9 coffee cups with saucers decorated with pink lotus leaves. 1980s.
The cup measures: 7.8 x 7 cm.
Saucer diameter: 14 cm.
...
Category
1980s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Naples Capodimonte Porcelain Lidded Tankard, Italian Early 19th Century
By Capodimonte
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a Naples (Capodimonte) Porcelain Lidded Tankard with deep relief body, which we date to the early 19th Century and made in Naples, Italy.
The tankard is hand made with dee...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Classical Roman Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Napoleon III Style Porcelain De Paris Coffee/Tea Service For 12 People-28 Pieces
Located in Prato, Tuscany
We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects.
Valuable and particular served in fine French porcelain in Napoleon III style; it is composed of 12 cups with a plate, a milk jug, a sugar bowl without a lid in the shape of a small cup so that it can contain sugar cubes or cookies, and two round trays with handles...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Napoleon III Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Vase Ch'ing Dynasty Woman with Deer
Located in Milano, IT
Beautiful antique Chinese vase from the Pink Family of the Ch'ing dynasty, from the late 1700s - early 1800s circa. The antique Chinese vase is hand painted and depicts a peasant woman with a deer and a child in scenes of Chinese daily life of the period.
The Chinese vase...
Category
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Famille Rose 'Wu Shuang Pu' Platter
Located in Bradenton, FL
This rare Chinese porcelain platter is boldly decorated and to the top with heroic characters from the 'Wu Shuang Pu', the Table of Peerless Heroes, each ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Early 19th Century Plate Porcelain Finely Hand Painted, Staffordshire UK Ca 1825
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is an early 19th century porcelain Plate or desert dish with a molded wavy edge to the rim, made by one of the quality Staffordshire, English potteries and dating from the George 111rd period, circa 1820 to 1830.
This piece is unmarked to the base but it is very well hand painted and we believe it is from one of the high quality English makers such as Coalport, Davenport or Samuel Alcock.
Either way this piece is a beautifully hand decorated with a striking, bold and very colourful pattern.
Overall a beautifully hand painted early English porcelain...
Category
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Copenhagen Blue Flower Angular, Six Coffee Cups with Saucers and Plates
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen Blue Flower Angular.
Six coffee cups with saucers and six plates. Mid-20th century.
The cup measures: 9 x 5.8 cm.
Saucer diameter: 14 cm.
Plate diameter: 16 cm....
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Famille Rose Tea Bowl & Saucer, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A delicate tea-bowl and saucer, decorated after the Chinese in the Famille Rose palette. This style of painting, known as 'wet enamelling', is very attractive but quite scarce in Bow...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Set of 2 Fruit Bowls Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Blue Marble Fruit Bowl is decorated outside with a blue yellow and green décor crowned by a...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Modern, Çini Porcelain Breakfast Plate, Decorated on Both, Set of 6
By DAY Studio
Located in İstanbul, İstanbul
Çini porcelain plates derived from an extensive research and deconstruction of traditional Ottoman tile work. While the patterns are repeated regularly in...
Category
2010s Turkish Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Paragon Double Warrant Bone China Teacup & Saucer with Floral Pattern
By Paragon
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This teacup and saucer set was made by the renowned Paragon fine bone china factory of England in approximately 1960. The set is done with a robin egg blue ground with a large flowered pattern on the inside of the cup which is replicated on the saucer. The cup is done with a wide square mouth...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Collectible Villeroy and Boch Porcelain Plate 1900 Art Deco Design
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Villeroy and Boch China 1900 Art Deco design.
Collectible Villeroy & Boch Plates design 1900,
Villeroy & Boch Design 1900 Porcelain...
Category
Late 20th Century Luxembourgish Art Deco Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Dinner Plate with Hand-Painted Crayfish Motif
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen porcelain dinner plate with hand-painted crayfish motif and golden border. Flora / Fauna Danica style. Dated 1968.
Diameter: 25.5 cm.
In excellent condition.
Stam...
Category
1950s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Copenhagen Blue Flower Curved Bowl on Base with Gold Edge, 1970s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen Blue Flower Curved bowl on base with gold edge. 1970s.
Model number 10/1532.
Measures: 17.5 x 6 cm.
In excellent condition.
Stamped.
1st factory quality.
Category
1970s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Richard Ginori Rapallo Serving Platter
Located in New York, NY
Richard Ginori Rapallo stunning serving platter. This extra large platter is painted with floral and gold designs, enhanced with gold trim on White Porc...
Category
1980s European Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique 18th Century Chinese Export Qianlong Porcelain Chocolate Tea Pot
Located in Dayton, OH
"Antique late 18th to early 19th century Chinese Export (Qianlong Period, circa 1780) floral famille rose Armorial porcelain hot chocolate pot or...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
French Limoges Sample Porcelain Plate, Late 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The scallop-molded plate, painted with various hand-enameled color references and numbers over-glaze beneath tapering rectangular color tabs.
Marked to underside near foot, "Havilan...
Category
1890s French Industrial Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Rare Chinese Pot with Lid 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
POT WITH LID
Chinese
19th century,
in cloisonné metal, decoration in shades of blue and polychrome with dragons and dragon-shaped handles in relief bronze.
Wooden base.
He...
Category
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Herend Hungary Porcelain "Chinese Bouquet Apponyi Green" Candleholders
By Herend
Located in Delft, NL
Herend Hungary porcelain "Chinese Bouquet Apponyi Green" candleholders
Two candleholders
#7915/AV
Measurements:
15 cm high and 13,2 cm diagonal.
The weight is 708 gram
Category
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century George III Worcester 1st Period Blue White Demitasse Teacup Saucer
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique 18th century (Circa 1770s) English George III Worcester 1st period tea bowl or coffee cup and saucer. Made of porcelain featuring the 1st period crescent mark and decorated with the chinoiserie motif known as Fences with an Asian landscape scene with a pagoda house...
Category
18th Century George III Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Allegory of Winter Four Cherubs Model 2495 Johann J. Kaendler
Located in Vienna, AT
Meissen stunning figurine group: Allegory of Winter
Model 2495
Measures:
Height: 6.69 inches (= 17.0 cm)
Width: 7.28 inches (= 18.5 cm)
Depth: 4.64 inches (= 11.8 cm)
Manufactory: Meissen
Hallmarked: Blue Meissen Sword Mark (glazed bottom)
Model number 2495
First quality
Dating: 19th century / made circa 1870
Material: porcelain, glossy finish, multicolored painted
Technique: handmade porcelain
Style: Rococo
Modelled by:
Johann Joachim Kaendler (born in 1706 near Dresden / Germany - Died 1775 in Meissen).
Model 2495 created circa 1757.
Kaendler was chief sculptor at Meissen manufactory as from 1742 until the year 1775. He is the most famous modeller Meissen manufactory ever had and created well-known series such as Shepherd Figurines, Comedian's Children, Gardener Children (with Acier), Paris Town Criers (with Reinicke and Meyer), Gallant Figurines, Asian Figurines etc.
Detailed description:
Subject: Figurine group / Allegory of Winter
Four cherubs heating up at blazing fire:
° head and thighs of cherub having taken place on a rock are partially covered with purple red fur coat...
Category
1870s German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Style Ludwigsburg Porcelain Reticulated or Openwork Basket
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine German porcelain openwork or reticulated basket.
By the Ludwigsburg Porcelain Manufactory.
With pierced sides of interlocking circular...
Category
20th Century German Baroque Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Art Deco Bohemian Pirkenhammer Porcelain Flower Girl Figurine
By Pirkenhammer
Located in Dayton, OH
"Rare antique circa 1910-1923 painted and gilded porcelain figurine titled Blumenmädchen or Flower Girl by Pirkenhammer Kunst-Abteilung of Czecholslovaki (Bohemia). Marked Prof. W Ge...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain Tureen Laveno Verbano Guido Andloviz, 1940
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Porcelain tureen Laveno Verbano Guido Andloviz 1940.
Category
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
La storia Infinita, Six Contemporary Decorated Porcelain Soup Plates
By Vito Nesta
Located in Milano, Lombardia
From the encounter between the historical archives of the Duomo di Milano and the imagery of Grand Tour by Vito Nesta, this unique collections of porcelains and fabrics were born. “L...
Category
2010s Italian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Japanese Porcelain Plate with Hand-Painted Blue and White Décor
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Japanese hand-painted porcelain plate from the 19th century, with blue and white tree and foliage décor and scalloped edge. Created in Japan during the 19th century, this porcelain...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Dessert Plate, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Circular plate, the well outlined and transfer printed in black/brown outline and filled-in with 'wet' enamels all with Chinese figures in a garden and a child playing with an excite...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Teste di Moro, Six Contemporary Porcelain Dinner Plates in Soft Grey
Located in MILAN, IT
Inspired by the Sicilian Moor's Head tradition, these incredibly detailed Teste di Moro plates are entirely handcrafted in refined porcelain. Showcasing the protagonist's enchanting ...
Category
2010s Italian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Blue Onion Ashtray in Hand-Painted Porcelain, Approx. 1900
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Meissen blue Onion ashtray in hand-painted porcelain. Approx. 1900.
Measures: 11 x 3.5 cm.
In excellent condition.
Stamped.
1st factory quality.
Category
Early 1900s German Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Twelve Rare Royal Copenhagen Liselund Dinner Plates, Model Number 625
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Twelve rare Royal Copenhagen Liselund dinner plates. Model number 625.
Diameter: 25 cm.
In excellent condition.
Stamped.
1st factory quality.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chocolate Cup, Finely Painted with Puce Birds, Chelsea C1765
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A good chocolate cup, with gilt decoration and finely painted puce birds - so finely painted you might mistake it for a print.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Mid-Century Heavy Porcelain Crucible Laboratory Bowl
Located in Hook, Hampshire
Mid-century heavy porcelain crucible laboratory bowl
Mid-century heavy porcelain crucible laboratory bowl. Made in Czech. A white porcelain bowl with a smooth finish and a spout for...
Category
Late 19th Century Czech Antique Porcelain
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Porcelain Plate, Themes & Variations, Motiv 19
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Rosenthal Fornasetti Temi E Variazioni porcelain plate,
Themes & Variations,
Motiv 19,
1980s.
The striking gold-rimmed black and white printed plate depicts a nude fema...
Category
1980s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Large Figures of Mythical Characters
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese export porcelain large mythical figures,
Probably of Shouxing, God of Longevity
Circa 1775
The two Chinese Export figures stand on green shaped bases and although they a...
Category
1770s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Hand-Painted Porcelain 2 Pint Jug Pitcher, Made in Italy
Located in Roma, RM
“I have been creating artworks and installations for a long time. Then over the past several years, pottery has absorbed most of my expressive energy. I follow an empirical, yet intu...
Category
2010s Italian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Hortense Mattice Gordon, Hand Painted Ceramic Cabinet Bowl, Canada, C. 1910
By Hortense Mattice Gordon
Located in Chatham, ON
Hortense Mattice Gordon R.C.A. (Canadian 1887-1961) - Fine and rare antique ceramic cabinet bowl - hand painted in the Art Nouveau style on an imported blank - featuring a display of...
Category
Early 20th Century Canadian Art Nouveau Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Viso Porcelain Zodiac Moon Tray 0103
Located in New York, NY
The latest addition to our beloved Zodiac Collection, these mini accent trays are a perfect finishing touch to the dinner table set-up and your work-f...
Category
2010s Spanish Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Porcelain, Pair of "Neu-Ozier" Molded Plates, 19th Century
Located in CH
Meissen Porcelain, pair of "Neu-Ozier" molded plates, 19th century.
Spirally molded and decorated with various flower bouquets and different kinds of insects.
Blue crossed swords...
Category
19th Century German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
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.
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