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Porcelain For Sale
Creator: Rosenthal
Creator: Piero Fornasetti
Piero Fornasetti Series 8 Coasters Commissioned by Banca Unione Milan
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.
Complete set of eight porcelain coasters produced in 1970 by Piero Fornasetti; they were expressly commissioned by the Banca Unione of Milan; the graphics with the decoration "Le Monete" represents eight variations on the theme of coins made in black and pure gold with the third firing; the term "third firing" means, in ceramics, the third firing that is applied to an object to add decorations, especially those in pure gold, a technique that requires great skill and precision; the saucers represent in numerical order 1)Boat, 2)Home, 3)idea, 4)Everything, 5)Holidays, 6)Christmas, 7)Student, 8)Car; they are contained in a golden cardboard case. These are Fine collectibles in excellent condition; the saucers were created in 1970 to be given as gifts by Banca Unione of Milan to its customers; they were made by Piero Fornasetti (1931-1988) a versatile and eclectic founder of the design and decorative arts atelier that bears his name. The Banca Unione was established in 1919 by Carlo Feltrinelli, father of Giangiacomo, a publisher very close to the left; among the minority shareholders were Bastogi (the largest Italian financial); since 1968 the bank became the property of the financier and fixer Michele Sindona (1920-1986) who secured the absolute majority along with the Vatican; the Bank dedicated itself to the Italian market by launching an unprecedented commercial policy, in an attempt to reconcile the interests of the institution with socially advanced actions. According to Sindona, in Italy, banks were only interested in the wealthy, snubbing the categories of workers with modest incomes. Sindona overturned this logic and, ahead of his time, sent Banca Unione promoters into the factories. Sindona was a member of the P2 lodge (card no. 0501) and had clear associations with Cosa Nostra and the Gambino family in the United States. Involved in the Calvi affair, he was behind the murder of Giorgio Ambrosoli. He died poisoned...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Rosenthal Andy Warhol "Golden Angels" Latte Macchiato Cup Saucer, 1980
Located in Rijssen, NL
Rosenthal cup and saucer set of 2. Andy Warhol Collection-Studio Line, Golden Angels
Measures: Cup H 10.2 cm, Ø 6.8 cm saucer Ø 16 cm, H 2 ...
Category
1980s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Postmodern White Glazed Porcelain Glove Mold by Rosenthal
By Rosenthal
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1970s.
This mold is made in glazed porcelain.
It was inspired by those ones designed by Gio Ponti for Ginori.
This is a vintage piece, therefore it might show slight t...
Category
1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Midcentury Tapio Wirkkala Rosenthal Coffee Set Gilt White Porcelain 1960s
Located in Nierstein am Rhein, DE
Fine and exquisite Tapio Wirkkala for Rosenthal studio-linie gilt white porcelain coffee set for 6 persons, Germany around 1960s to 1970s. This set belongs to the cabinet pieces so r...
Category
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Tapio Wirkkala Gilt White Porcelain Rosenthal Coffee Espresso Tea Set 1960s
Located in Nierstein am Rhein, DE
Fine and exquisite Tapio Wirkkala for Rosenthal studio-linie gilt white porcelain coffee tea or espresso set for 6 persons, Germany around 1960s to 1970s. This set belongs to the cab...
Category
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Dessert Service by Rosenthal Bjorn Wiinblad 24-Karat Plated, 1980
Located in Bronx, NY
Magic flute coffee dessert service by Rosenthal Bjorn Wiinblad 24-karat plated by Rosenthal Bjorn Wiinblad 24-karat plated, mint condition set for six with milk and sugar bowl on a 2...
Category
1980s German Baroque Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Tea Service Flash One Dorothy Hafner for Rosenthal Studio-Line
Located in Vienna, AT
Designed by Dorothy Hafner 1985 for Rosenthal Studio-Line Germany. Porcelain, mint green and black glazed, 11 pieces,
1 x coffee pot,
2 x coffee cup with saucers,
2 x plates,
2 x ...
Category
1980s German Post-Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Set of 8 Gilted Astrolabe Plates
Located in Paris, FR
Piero Fornasetti 1913-1988 lived and worked in Milano and he was very fond of science. This series normally is composed of 12 designs about astrolabe or "Astrolabos" in Greece which ...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Rosenthal Trinket Dishes by Raymond Peynet Design, Germany 1970
Located in Bastogne, BE
Decorative vintage pieces of Rosenthal porcelain from the lovers series by Raymond Peynet (1908-1999), the French cartoonist who designed for Rosenthal Studio Line between 1955 and 1...
Category
20th Century German Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
20th Century Piero Fornasetti Plates Gilt Porcelain
Located in Epfach, DE
Piero Fornasetti plate, to use as a place plate, dinner plate as well as decoration
the plates are in a nice used condition, small abrasions of the gold are not further disturbing bu...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Italian Racehorse Champions Plates
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Italian Racehorse Champions Plates,
Great Italian Equestrian Champions,
"Grandi Campioni Italian Del Galoppo,
Circa 1950's.
The plates, numbered consecutively from ...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Rosenthal Studio Linie Gilt Porcelain No. 23 Cup & Saucers by Otto Piene
By Rosenthal
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A pair of fine porcelain cups & saucers.
By Rosenthal.
In the Künstlertasse Nr. 23 (lit. Artist Cup) pattern designed by Otto Piene.
Both cup and saucer are richly gilded and have a multi-faceted, star shaped design.
Each marked to the base with Rosenthal's maker's mark / Studio-linie / Germany / Künstlertasse Nr. 23 / Otto Piene / Piene's signature.
Simply a wonderful pair Rosenthal cups...
Category
20th Century German Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Capriccio Model Porcelain Sculpture by Ferdinand Liebermann for Rosenthal
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain, with polychrome glazes; figure of a boy riding an ibex on a tiered moulded round base. Underglaze green company signet Rosenthal Selb-Bavaria.
Biography
German sculptor F...
Category
1910s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
German White Matte Porcelain Vase by Rosenthal Studio Line
By Rosenthal
Located in New York, NY
A German white matte porcelain vase by Rosenthal Studio-Line Collection, circa late-20th century, Germany. Oval in shape with organic modern design on around - front, side and back. Maker's mark on bottom...
Category
Late 20th Century German Organic Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain, Ceramic
Large 67 Piece Set of Post Modern Dorothy Hafner Rosenthal Flash Dinnerware
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Large set of Memphis style Flash series porcelain dinnerware for twelve designed in 1982 by noted American ceramist and glass artist, Dorothy Hafner, and manufactured in Germany by R...
Category
1980s German Post-Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Plate Decorative Vintage Bjorn Wiinblad The Magic Flute for Rosenthal Germany
Located in Bastogne, BE
This collector plate from Rosenthal features a beautiful design inspired by Mozart's "The Magic Flute" (DIE ZAUBERFLOTE), by Danish artist Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal.
Limited edit...
Category
20th Century German Porcelain
Materials
Gold Plate
Rosenthal Andy Warhol "Golden Angels" glasses
By Andy Warhol, Rosenthal
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
Rosenthal Studio-Line Andy Warhol christmas golden Angels glasses. Andy Warhol, quite possibly the greatest pop art artist of our time, loved Christmas and was known for giving his f...
Category
1980s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Glass
Raymond Loewy Rosenthal - servies 26 pieces Form 2000 Bunte Blätter
Located in Verviers, BE
Raymond Loewy Rosenthal - servies 26 pieces Form 2000 Bunte Blätter
In the early 1950’s Rosenthal, a German maker of fine china, was looking to update their image and break into th...
Category
1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Beautiful dish with Butterfly in porcelain by Piero Fornasetti. Mid-20th Century
Located in Knivsta, SE
A Beautiful dish with a Butterfly in porcelain designed by Piero Fornasetti during the Mid-20th Century. Typical Fornasetti design and with a butterfly with beauful colors
Wear cons...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Rosenthal Andy Warhol "Golden Angels" Plate, with original box
By Andy Warhol, Rosenthal
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
Rosenthal Studio-Line Andy Warhol Christmas Golden Angels plate. Andy Warhol, quite possibly the greatest pop artist of our time, loved Christmas and was k...
Category
Early 2000s German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
White & gold Sarastro porcelain box by Bjorn Wiinbland for Rosenthal, 1980s
Located in STRASBOURG, FR
Beautiful white & gold top porcelain box model "Sarastro" designed by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal Germany circa 1980.
In excellent condition, no defects are to be noted.
"Bjørn Wiinblad (20 September 1919 – 8 June 2006), was a Danish painter, designer and artist in ceramics, silver, bronze, textiles, and graphics. His work has been shown widely in Europe, in the United States of America first in 1954 and in Japan, Australia and Canada in 1968. Wiinblad was named Man of the Year in New York in 1985 and was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Cultural Prize of 1995.
Wiinblad was an important designer for the Rosenthal porcelain company. His most popular Rosenthal dinnerware...
Category
1980s German Romantic Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Sezioni Di Frutta Dessert Plate, No 4 for Tiffany
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Sezioni Di Frutta Dessert Plate,
No 4 in Series,
Made for Tiffany,
1960s
The tromp l"oeil porcelain plate depicts a section o...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Raymond Loewy for Rosenthal Porcelain China Service for 12
Located in Palm Springs, CA
German porcelain china dinnerware service for 12 by renowned American designer Raymond Loewy.
The set consists of 12 dinner plate, 12 Salad pla...
Category
1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Martin Freyer Vase for Rosenthal, No. 2991
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Wonderful, organic, matte porcelain vase No. 2991 by Martin Freyer for Rosenthal Studioline, Germany with a wrapped textile pattern look and glazed interior, marked.
Category
1960s German Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Spring Bjorn Wiinblad Four Seasons Plate For Nymølle
Located in Vienna, AT
Bjorn Wiinblad the Spring plate from the one of the four seasons plates.
Manufacturer in the 1970s by Nymølle in Denmark.
Perfect condition. The ...
Category
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Rosenthal Andy Warhol Daisy Breakfast Sets (price for 3 sets)
By Rosenthal, Andy Warhol
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
Rosenthal Studio-Line Andy Warhol Daisies 3 sets of coffee cup and saucer and plate. Rosenthal Andy Warhol Daisies line---beautiful, precious collector po...
Category
1980s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
1970s Set of Four Mid-Century Modern Porcelain Mural Plates by Piero Fornasetti
Located in Aci Castello, IT
Four 70s porcelain plates designed by Piero Fornasetti especially for Fiat, depicting Torino monuments and cooking recipes. The black, white and gold colors are a mark of Fornasetti ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Rosenthal Andy Warhol "Golden Angels" Latte Macchiato
By Rosenthal, Andy Warhol
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
Rosenthal Studio-Line Andy Warhol christmas golden Angels espresso cup with saucer. Andy Warhol, quite possibly the greatest pop art artist of our time, loved Christmas and was known...
Category
1980s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Rosenthal Porcelain Silver Overlay Vase 1935
By Rosenthal
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Rosenthal porcelain silver overlay vase
Date : 1935
Origin : Selb, Germany
Bowl Features : Engraved silver overlay depicting winterberry with r...
Category
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Autumn Bjorn Wiinblad Four Seasons Plate For Rosenthal Studio-Line
Located in Vienna, AT
Bjorn Wiinblad the Autumn plate from the one of the four seasons plates.
Manufacturer in the 1970s by Nymølle in Denmark.
Perfect condition.
Category
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1977
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1977 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. When Rosenthal asked the Danish artist to illustrate a new series of dishes, he decid...
Category
1970s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1980
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1980 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. When Rosenthal asked the Danish artist to illustrate a new series of dishes, he decid...
Category
1980s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Rosenthal White Maria porcelain service, Germany.
By Rosenthal
Located in Chorzów, PL
Porcelain service Maria had by Rosenthal.
Dimensions:
6 pcs cup - height 6.5 cm / dia. 9.5 cm
Plates 6 pcs. - dia. 14.5 cm cm
Stand 6 pcs. - dia. 9.5 cm
Jug: height 20 cm / widt...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Rosenthal Porcelain Set for 4 people, Germany.
By Rosenthal
Located in Chorzów, PL
Porcelain set by Rosenthal model White Maria.
Dimensions:
4 pcs cup - height 6 cm / dia. 9 cm
Plate 4 pcs. - dia. 14.5 cm
Stand 4 pcs. - dia. 9.5 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century German Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Lemon squeezer, Rosenthal Chrysantheme Cacilie, 1907.
By Rosenthal
Located in Chorzów, PL
A unique lemon squeezer made of white porcelain with a Chrysantheme Cacilie rose motif
There is damage to the upper part - a chip (see last photo)
The product is signed with the si...
Category
Early 1900s German Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
20th Century Piero Fornasetti Plates Gilt Porcelain
Located in Epfach, DE
Piero Fornasetti plate, to use as a place plate, dinner plate as well as decoration
the plates are in a nice used condition, small abrasions of the gold are not further disturbing bu...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Summer Bjorn Wiinblad Four Seasons Plate For Rosenthal Studio-Line
Located in Bastogne, BE
Vintage wall plate “The Seasons” “Summer” by ROSENTHAL Germany Studio-Line.
Limited edtion designed by Bjorn Wiinblad.
Brilliant colours, very impressive!
Gorgeous plate that wi...
Category
20th Century German Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1988
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1988 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. The dish is titled “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” and is reason no. 6 of the se...
Category
1980s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1989
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1989 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. The dish is titled “O Little Town of Bethlehem” and is reason no. 7 of the series. Wh...
Category
1980s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Two plates - platters, Rosenthal Chrysantheme Cacilie, 1898-1904.
By Rosenthal
Located in Chorzów, PL
A set of two platters from the German manufacturer Rosenthal
Chrysantheme Cacilie rose decoration.
Signed with factory marks used in the years 1898-1904.
Very good condition, - LA...
Category
Early 20th Century German Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 5 Piero Fornasetti Mitologia Gilt Porcelain Plates, Italy
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Set of 5, Italian, mid century, small plates or coasters by Piero Fornasetti, made exclusively for retailer Bonwitt Teller. The plates feature the "Mitologia" (Mythological) pattern,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1993
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1993 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. The dish is titled “Away in a manger”. When Rosenthal asked the Danish artist to illu...
Category
1990s German Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1984
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1984 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. The dish is titled “Jingle Bells” and is reason no. 2 of the series. When Rosenthal a...
Category
1980s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1994
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1994 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. The dish is titled “Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming”. When Rosenthal asked the Danish art...
Category
1990s German Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1987
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1987 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. The dish is titled “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” and is r...
Category
1980s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1990
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1990 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. When Rosenthal asked the Danish artist to illustrate a new series of dishes, he decid...
Category
1990s German Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1991
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1991 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. The dish is titled “Oh Sheperds, men and women come...” and is reason no. 9 of the se...
Category
1990s German Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1986
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1986 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. The dish is titled “O Christmas Tree” and is reason no. 4 of the series. When Rosenth...
Category
1980s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1985
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1985 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. The dish is titled “We Three Kings of Orient Are” and is reason no. 3 of the series. ...
Category
1980s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1983
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1983 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. The dish is titled “Silent night”. When Rosenthal asked the Danish artist to illustra...
Category
1980s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Tapio Wirkkala for Rosenthal Porcelain Noir, 1960
Located in Los Angeles, CA
wonderful cylindrical black matte porcelain vase designed by Tapio Wirkkala for Rosenthal/Siemens, with sublime relief of beaded pearls running down vertical lines, gives an impressi...
Category
1960s German Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Rosenthal Studio-Line Vase White Porcelain Gold Pattern Design Hans Theo Baumann
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
An elegant porcelain vase designed by Hans Theo Baumann for Rosenthal. The vase has an oval shape, with a glossy glaze that creates a smooth and polished surface, while the matte gol...
Category
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Rosenthal Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Plate 12 Mesi 12 Soli Settembre September
Located in München, BY
Fornasetti porcelain plate for Rosenthal - 12 Mesi 12 Soli.
Plate No. 9, Settembre September.
No damage. Very good condition.
Dimensions:
Diameter 10,2"/26cm
Depth 1,2"/3cm
Category
1980s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Art Déco Porcelain Figurine 'Merry March', C. Holzer-Defanti, Rosenthal Germany
Located in Vienna, AT
Very rare Porcelaine Figurine after the dancer Lena Amsel:
Dancer in an exotic Pierrot costume with a zigzag pattern, with large flounced cuffs and ma...
Category
1920s German Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
20th Century Piero Fornasetti Bowl With Letter S
Located in Epfach, DE
Piero Fornasetti bowl with letter S
The beautiful decorative bowl with gilding is also a wonderful gift. The condition is very good, the gilding is not scuffed. You can put it and ha...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Art Déco Porcelain Figure Korean Dance by C. Holzer-Defanti Rosenthal Germany
Located in Vienna, AT
Dancer in an oriental costume with traditional Korean looking headdress, with raised, bent legs and arms performing a dance pose, a Chinese pagoda leaning against her leg. The figure...
Category
1920s German Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Raymond Loewy After Dinner Coffee Set for "Rosenthal 2000", 1954
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Grey and white porcelain 20 piece after dinner coffee set Rosenthal 2000 Secunda, coffee server, sugar bowl and creamer and complete set of service with...
Category
1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Fornasetti Themes & Variations Plate #334, Atelier Fornasetti, The Quiet
Located in Downingtown, PA
Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation plate, #334,
The Quiet,
Atelier Fornasetti
With Original Box.
The Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts t...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Mid-Century Modern 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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