Porcelain
1980s British Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1770s English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1810s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Silver
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s Italian Rococo Revival Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Japanese Porcelain
Earthenware, Pottery
1960s Danish Neoclassical Vintage Porcelain
Early 20th Century Belgian Art Deco Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Porcelain
Porcelain
1970s Japanese Showa Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Bronze
Late 20th Century Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain
1930s Japanese American Classical Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Georgian Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century European Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Porcelain
Creamware
1930s German Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
1920s Danish Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Biedermeier Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Baroque Porcelain
Paint, Porcelain
Early 20th Century Italian Porcelain
Gold
Mid-20th Century French Porcelain
Porcelain, Cork
1970s German Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Porcelain
Porcelain
1890s German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Porcelain
Bronze
Late 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1920s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 2000s German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 18th Century German Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century German Neoclassical Revival Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Spanish Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century European Napoleon III Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1890s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1770s English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century German Rococo Revival Porcelain
Porcelain
1910s English Edwardian Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
18th Century British George III Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 2000s Spanish Modern Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain, Wood
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.