Porcelain
1950s German Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1740s German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century French Art Deco Porcelain
Porcelain
1770s English George III Antique Porcelain
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1930s German Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
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1880s French Antique Porcelain
Ormolu
20th Century Hungarian Other Porcelain
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Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
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Early 20th Century German Porcelain
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1830s English Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
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1720s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
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2010s Italian Porcelain
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20th Century French Art Deco Porcelain
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1960s English Vintage Porcelain
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1930s German Other Vintage Porcelain
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1810s French Empire Antique Porcelain
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Early 20th Century German Porcelain
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1960s Danish Vintage Porcelain
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1950s Japanese Late Victorian Vintage Porcelain
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Early 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Qing Porcelain
Clay, Stoneware
1830s French Louis Philippe Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century American American Classical Antique Porcelain
Pottery
Early 20th Century German Porcelain
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20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
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1980s German Vintage Porcelain
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1810s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
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1950s Danish Vintage Porcelain
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1970s Italian Modern Vintage Porcelain
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Late 19th Century French Rococo Antique Porcelain
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2010s German Porcelain
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2010s Italian Porcelain
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20th Century French Louis XIV Porcelain
Porcelain
1940s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
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1970s German Post-Modern Vintage Porcelain
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20th Century German Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century Austrian Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Russian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Gold
1960s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century French Napoleon III Porcelain
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2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
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19th Century Austrian Belle Époque Antique Porcelain
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1960s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Gold
20th Century German Rococo Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s French Art Deco Porcelain
Gold Plate
Late 20th Century German Rococo Porcelain
Porcelain
1980s German Vintage Porcelain
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1970s French Vintage Porcelain
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1980s Japanese Showa Vintage Porcelain
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19th Century German Antique Porcelain
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Porcelain
1890s Hungarian Baroque Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1830s English Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Porcelain
Gold
Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century French Belle Époque Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Porcelain
1940s Italian Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1750s German Rococo Antique Porcelain
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Gold
1880s French Antique Porcelain
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1950s English Victorian Vintage Porcelain
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2010s Italian Porcelain
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18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s Danish Vintage Porcelain
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1890s Austrian Neoclassical Revival Antique Porcelain
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1980s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern 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.