Porcelain
1910s German Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
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1890s Hungarian Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
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1830s French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
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Late 18th Century Austrian Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
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Early 20th Century German Art Nouveau Porcelain
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1860s German Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
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1920s German Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
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Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century German Art Nouveau Porcelain
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1860s German Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
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19th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
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1860s French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
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19th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century Macanese Art Nouveau Porcelain
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Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
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Porcelain, Wood
20th Century French Art Nouveau Porcelain
Alabaster
Late 18th Century Austrian Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
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1870s German Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
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1890s English Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
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19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
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1850s English Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
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18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
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Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Porcelain
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1980s Portuguese Louis XVI Vintage Porcelain
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Gold
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
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1910s British Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
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Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
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Sèvres
20th Century North American Art Nouveau Porcelain
Silver
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
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20th Century German Art Nouveau Porcelain
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Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Porcelain
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1840s French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
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20th Century Art Nouveau Porcelain
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
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Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Bronze
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Porcelain
Enamel, Gold Leaf
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
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1880s French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
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Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
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Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
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Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
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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.