Porcelain
1870s German Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1870s German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century English Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1700s English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1850s Qing Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s Czech Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century French French Provincial Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s German Romantic Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain, Hardwood
1850s French Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1910s English Rococo Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
18th Century Chinese Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century French Porcelain
Glass, Ceramic, Porcelain
Late 19th Century Austrian Aesthetic Movement Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Italian Country Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain
1940s German Romantic Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Porcelain
1870s German Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century German Baroque Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
1810s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Aesthetic Movement Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century Austrian Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Silver
2010s Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Irish Victorian Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Empire Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century Dutch Antique Porcelain
Gold
Early 1900s German Romantic Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Other Porcelain
Porcelain
1860s German Other Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Italian Classical Roman Porcelain
Gold
Early 18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century Dutch Antique Porcelain
Gold
Mid-20th Century Danish Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century French Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Polish Porcelain
Glass, Ceramic, Porcelain
20th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century European Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century German Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century British Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s American Post-Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-18th Century English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1860s German Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1980s German Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century French French Provincial Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Qing Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
1970s German Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 2000s English Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
1810s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Asian Qing 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.