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Porcelain For Sale
Style: Victorian
Style: Rococo
Royal Copenhagen, a Set of Six Antique Dinner Plates with Reticulated Rim
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen, a set of six antique dinner plates with reticulated rim and leaf work.
Rare plates, hand painted with floral motifs.
Juliane ...
Category
Early 1900s Danish Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Worcester Hand Painted Claret Jug
Located in East Geelong, VIC
Royal Worcester offered four sizes of this claret jug shape, the shape being number 1047, which was first issued in 1884. This one stands 224 mm (8.75 inches) high and measures 83 mm (3.25 inches) across the base. This example is decorated to the front with a hand painted spray of red poppies and golden ears of wheat on a blush ivory ground. To the left of the poppies is an insect striding along on one of the ears of wheat. The rear is decorated with a single poppy...
Category
Early 1900s English Late Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique W.H. Tatler Porcelain Pink Rose Flower Wash Basin - 4 Pc Set
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique W.H. Tatler Porcelain Pink Rose Flower Wash Basin - 4 Pc Set. Item features (4) pcs, gold gilt details, pink rose flowers, original stamp, includes (1) large...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Group Six Figurines Allegory of Earth by Acier Model D 83
Located in Norwood, NJ
Large Meissen group of figurines which are Allegory of Earth assembled around a Lion's Figurine.
Manufactory: Meissen Hallmarked: Blue Meissen Sword M...
Category
Late 19th Century German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Pair of English Brass and Porcelain Candlesticks Victorian, 1870
Located in London, GB
Fine pair of English Victorian detailed brass twist candlesticks, featuring beautiful cream and gold porcelain bases. The candlesticks are hei...
Category
1870s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Brass
Antique English Staffordshire Transferware Serving Creamer Jug Pitcher
Located in Dayton, OH
"Antique 20th century Staffordshire transferware porcelain jug or pitcher featuring an English landscape in black, originally designed by James Cutts for W. Adams & Sons, and a yellow border around the upper edge. “James Cutts was born in 1808 in Pinxton, Derbyshire, he was the 9th of 10 children and the youngest of five boys. His father, John Cutts, was a moderately gifted china painter, trained at the Derby porcelain works, who moved to become manager of the Pinxton porcelain...
Category
Early 20th Century Late Victorian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bow Porcelain Orphaned Coffee Cup, Famille Rose Peony, circa 1755
Located in London, GB
This is a very charming orphaned coffee cup made by the Bow Porcelain factory in about 1755. The cup is decorated in a Chinese "famille rose" peony pattern. This cup would have been part of a large tea service, and the tiny size shows how expensive coffee was in the 18th Century.
The Bow Porcelain Factory was one of the first potteries in Britain to make soft paste porcelain, and most probably the very first to use bone ash, which later got perfected by Josiah Spode to what is now the universally used "bone china". Bow was the main competitor of the Chelsea Porcelain Factory, but where Chelsea made very fine slipcast porcelain, Bow made a different soft paste porcelain that tended to be softer and could be pressed into moulds. Bow served a larger public generally at lower prices. The factory was only in operation between 1743 and 1774, after which the tradition got incorporated into some of the later famous potteries such as Worcester and Derby.
The cup is unmarked, which is normal for Bow items of this era.
Condition report the cup is in excellent condition without any damage or repairs. There are various glazing imperfections, which are quite normal for porcelain of this era.
Antique British porcelain...
Category
1750s English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Herend "Fleurs des Indes" Green Hand Painted Porcelain Egg Box, Hungary, 2022
By Herend
Located in Cagliari, IT
As its name implies, the decoration "Flowers of the Indies" intends to link up with the magical world of the indian subcontinent which had already fascinated the European courts sinc...
Category
2010s Hungarian Victorian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Mythological Group 'Thalia With Tree', by J.J. Kaendler, Germany, c 1900
Located in Vienna, AT
Very rare Meissen group:
Thalia, the muse of theater and comic poetry, covered only with a large cloth, smiling and sitting on a rock under a cherry tree, holding a mask next to her...
Category
Early 1900s German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Splendid Centerpiece With Music Playing Children, by Leuteritz, Mid-20th
Located in Vienna, AT
The centerpiece was designed by Leuteritz using old forms in Rococo style:
High, round rocaille base, centered a high column, covered on the front and back with large rocaille panel...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Rococo Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Rococo Figure 'Huntress with Dog', by J.C. Schoenheit, Around 1880
Located in Vienna, AT
Elaborate porcelain figure of the 19th century:
Young lady with rococo wig dressed as a huntress: black trident hat with colorful feather decoration, softly falling dress...
Category
Mid-19th Century German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Marcolini Duck Tureen
Located in Dresden, DE
This figurative butter or pate terrine in duck form, Meissen, c. 1780/90, impresses with its naturalistic painting and finely worked plumage structure. Such figurative service compon...
Category
Late 18th Century German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bow Complete Set of Porcelain Figures "The Four Elements", Rococo, circa 1765
Located in London, GB
This is a very rare and impressive complete set of large figures called The Four Elements, made by the Bow Porcelain factory in about 1765. It consists of Ceres representing Earth, V...
Category
1760s English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Minton Antique Blanc de Chine Porcelain Figural Centrepiece
By Minton
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A fine antique Minton porcelain blanc de chine centrepiece with a young maiden with a basket dating from around 1862. The centrepiece stands o...
Category
1860s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Grainger Worcester Pair Floral Painted Twin Handled Vases
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine pair English twin handled porcelain vases painted with flowers by renowned makers Grainger Worcester and dating from the 19th century. T...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
17 Piece Minton Porcelain Dessert Service with Tazze
By Minton
Located in London, GB
A 17 piece Minton porcelain dessert service with tazze
English, 19th century
Measures: Plate: height 2cm, diameter 24cm
Tazze: height 12.5...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Parian Figure Il Penseroso
Located in Martlesham, GB
19th century parian figure attributed to Worcester “Il Penseroso” A draped female figure with downcast eyes standing on a circular base named Il Penseros...
Category
1860s British Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique French Sevres Porcelain Celest Blue Gilt Trembleuse Chocolate Cup Saucer
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stunning French sevres soft paste hand decorated Rich Celeste Blue Porcelain lidded Chocolate Cup of museum quality, complete with its original undertray and dome cover with a leafy ...
Category
19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Meissen Porcelain Group 'Europe on the Bull', by J.F. Eberlein, circa 1860
Located in Vienna, AT
Excellent large meissen figurine group around 1860:
Beautiful, youthful Europe, the primordial mother of the continent, with her hair tied back and adorned with flowers, sits sideways on the strong, white bull, which is actually the transformed father of the god Zeus, who kidnaps the young woman. She is covered only with a large floor-length cloth with golden stars. With her right hand she holds on to one of the animal's horns,
with her left hand she grasps its neck, a flower garland adorns the animal's head, two nymphs wrapped in shawls kneel at Europe's feet and offer flowers from a basket.
The group is based on an oval base with rocaille decoration heightened in gold.
Design:
Johann Friedrich Eberlein (1695 - 1749) From 1735 sculptor and modeller at the Meissen porcelain factory. Eberlein worked with Johann Friedrich Eberlein (1706 - 1775) - a modeller at the Meissen manufactory since 1731: Together with J. J. KÄNDLER and Johann Gottlieb Ehder, he created the swan service with more than 2,200 individual items between 1737 and 1742. Eberlein's own creations show classical deities on opulent baroque...
Category
Mid-19th Century German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair 19th Century Rococo Style Meissen Porcelain Parrot and Flower Lidded Vases
Located in New York, NY
An incredible pair of 19th century Rococo Style Meissen Porcelain parrot and flower encrusted lidded vases. Each is absolutely stunning with a variety of hand-painted and encrusted f...
Category
19th Century German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Worcester Rare Porcelain Melon Shaped Teapot & Cover
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare antique Worcester porcelain melon shaped teapot and cover dating from around 1880. The teapot is of round melon shape and applied in relief with trailing leafy stems with a fu...
Category
1880s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Dresden Potschappel Porcelain Miniature Flower Encrusted Perfume Bottle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique miniature Dresden porcelain perfume bottle.
By Thieme Potschappel.
Decorated throughout with encrusted porcelain flowers...
Category
20th Century German Rococo Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Victorian Hand Painted Porcelain Tea Caddy, English, 1870
Located in Stamford, CT
Beautiful Victorian porcelain tea caddy with hand painted floral design.
Category
19th Century European Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique German Helena Wolfson Dresden Three Handle Loving Cup Vase Urn 19thCent
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An exceptionally fine quality hand painted Dresden stoneware three handle loving cup of traditional circular flared outline and generous size. Last half of the nineteenth century.
With three hand painted classical scenes of Ladies in landscape in Eighteenth century dress, separated by three large lavish gilded handles. This wonderful piece is supported by three gilded claw feet.
*In our opinion and the quality of painted decoration these pieces were decorated by Dresden studio of Helena Wolfson...
Category
Late 19th Century German Early Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique English Porcelain Dish Hand Painted with Flowers 19th Century Circa 1830
Located in Katonah, NY
The dish is hand-painted with perfect pink and purple roses and a fabulous orange eastern poppy.
Around the center is a band of gilt.
The border has impressed decoration of flowers ...
Category
1830s English Early Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Grainger Worcester Porcelain Dolphin Support Shell Shaped Salt c.1860
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An antique Grainger Worcester porcelain shell shaped salt dating from around 1860. The finely made salt stands raised on a shaped rectangular pedest...
Category
1860s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Rare Antique English Minton Ironstone Amherst Japan Pattern Dessert Dishes
By Minton
Located in Charleston, SC
Rare pair of Antique English Minton ironstone (earthenware) hand decorated "Amherst Japan" pattern Imari style or Chinoise pattern unusual triangular shape, handled Dessert Dishes. P...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Earthenware, Ironstone
BELLEEK, Ceramic Ewer with Applied Floral Decoration, Ireland, Circa 1965-80
Located in Chatham, ON
BELLEEK (Manufacturer) - Vintage ceramic ewer - featuring applied porcelain floral decoration to the body - 3rd green maker's mark to the bottom - Ireland - circa 1965-1980.
Excel...
Category
Late 20th Century Northern Irish Victorian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Aesop's Fables Animals on Antique French Porcelain Plate Hand Painted circa 1825
Located in Katonah, NY
Four beautiful scenes from Aesop's fables adorn this marvelous plate.
It was made in France circa 1825.
Each scene captures the essence of the fable it depicts, transporting the viewer into the world of these timeless stories.
1) The Fox & the Grapes (see more...
Category
Early 19th Century French Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Limoges Fish Platter Set with 12 Plates
Located in Winter Park, FL
An early 20th century French Limoges porcelain fish platter and 12 plates, each hand-painted in green and yellow with gilt edge. Mark to undersi...
Category
Early 20th Century French Victorian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Porcelain Chinoiserie "Gold Dragon" Flower-Encrusted Garniture
Located in New York, NY
A Meissen porcelain ‘Gold Dragon’ pattern three-piece garniture.
A Meissen porcelain reticulated three-piece basket Garniture and stands.
...
Category
Late 19th Century German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Rare & Superb Antique English Silverplate & Imari porcelain Toast/Letter Rack
Located in Charleston, SC
Extraordinarily rare and fine Antique English Sheffield silver plate and hand painted porcelain Toast or Letter Rack in the imari decor. The plating is...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Silver Plate
Royal Dux. Rococo Couple in Hand-Painted Porcelain, 1940s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Dux. Rococo couple in hand-painted porcelain.
1940s.
Marked.
Perfect condition.
The woman measures: 21.0 x 13.0 cm.
The man measures: 22.0 x 9.0 cm.
Category
1940s Czech Rococo Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Stag Motif Kaiser Porcelain Stein
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
1949-1990 Kaiser porcelain stein. W. Germany mark. Stag motif pewter top after the work of Johann Ridinger, a bisque bas relief of charging stag in rococo shield. Pewter flip top rep...
Category
20th Century German Rococo Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Staffordshire Porcelain Figurine Faux Clock Scottish Couple
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique circa 1870s Staffordshire porcelain figurine in the shape of a man and woman in Scottish clothing seated above a faux clock.
Category
1870s Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
English Blue and White Ironstone Tableware, Transfer Bowl by Cauldon Messina
Located in Miami, FL
A very good quality antique transfer plate or serving bowl by Cauldon Messina.
English blue and white Delft style porcelain.
Great for all occasio...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Meissen Porcelain Cherub Motto Figurine "Je decouvre tout" Model F13
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique porcelain Cupid figurine.
By Meissen.
Model no. F13 from the Cupid Motto Series.
Entitled "Je decouvre tout".
Originally de...
Category
Early 20th Century German Rococo Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Large Sèvres-style Porcelain and Gilt-Metal Vases
Located in London, GB
Pair of large Sèvres-style porcelain and gilt-metal vases.
French, 20th century
Measures: height 97cm, width 42cm, depth 30cm
With covers, el...
Category
20th Century French Rococo Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
36-Piece French Victorian Limoges Porcelain Dinner Set
By Limoges
Located in New York, NY
36 Piece French Victorian Limoges porcelain dinner service with yellow border and floral trim (PRICED AS SET).
Category
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair 19th Century Meissen Porcelain Chinoiserie Style of Nodding Pagoda Figures
Located in New York, NY
A large rare pair of 19th century Meissen Chinoiserie style Nodding Pagoda Figures with Movable Head, Hand and Tongue, known as a "Nodder'. This Unusual...
Category
1850s German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal England Blue and White Porcelain Bowl by Wood & Son
By Wood & Son
Located in Miami, FL
Marked "TRILBY"
ROYAL SEMI-PORCELAIN
WOOD & SON
ENGLAND
Brand: Wood & Son
Style: flow blue
Item: Bowl
Pattern: Trilby
Material: Porcelain
Design:...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bow Pair of Porcelain Figures of Liberty & Matrimony, Rococo 1760-1764
Located in London, GB
This is a fabulous pair of figures of Liberty and Matrimony made by the Bow Porcelain factory between 1760 and 1764. These figures were a popular pair portraying marriage.
The bow...
Category
1760s English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Minton Porcelain Dessert Service, Turquoise, Equestrian Horses, Victorian, 1871
By Minton
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful dessert service made by Minton in 1871, consisting of two high comports, four low comports, and ten plates. All items have a white ground with a bright turquoise ...
Category
1870s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 3 Antique Hand Painted Bone China Liquor Bottle Tags by Coalport England
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A set of three antique liquor bottle decanter tags. Each tag is created from fine porcelain in a medallion shape. On a crisp white background, each is han...
Category
20th Century English Victorian Porcelain
Materials
Metal, Gold
Wedgwood Porcelain Plaque of The Clipper Ship, Golden West
By Wedgwood
Located in Downingtown, PA
Wedgwood Porcelain Paintd Plaque of the clipper ship,
Golden West,
1976-1981
The Wedgwood porcelain plaque is painted with a portside view of The clipper ship The Golden West within an original maple veneered wood frame. In the background is the famous tugboat Ceres.
Printed on the reverse within an oval opening there reads "Golden West, Reproduced from the original painting by Smith with permission of the Peabody Museum."
Mark: Wedgwood of Etruria & Barlaston/Made in England. The original Wedgwood site was affected by mining subsidence, and plans were drawn for a new factory at Barlaston some miles south on the Trent and Mersey Canal. The new factory was built in 1938–40 and most of the old factory was demolished in the twentieth century after the Wedgwood company moved production to Barlaston
Dimensions: 9 ¾ inches high x 12 ¼ inches wide; Sight 7 3/4 inches high x 9 3/4 inches wide.
The Golden West.
Golden West was an 1852 extreme clipper built by Paul Curtis. The ship had a very active career in the California trade, the guano trade, the coolie trade, the Far East, and Australia. She made a record passage between Japan and San Francisco in 1856.
The Golden West was launched in 1852 from the Yard of Paul Curtis, East Boston...
Category
1970s English Victorian Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Nymphenburg Porcelain Figurine of the Disturbed Slumberer/Der Gestörte Schlummer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Nymphenburg porcelain figurine.
Entitled "Der Gestörte Schlummer", which translates to English as "The Disturbed Slumber".
After the 18th Century Frankenthal Porcelain model modeled by Johann Friedrich Lück.
Depicting a sleeping gallant attended to (and being awakened by) two maidens. The gallant is sleeping on patches of grass that are supported by a stylized Rococo rocaille base.
Simply a wonderful antique Nymphenburg figurine...
Category
Early 20th Century German Rococo Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Derby Porcelain Figure of Neptune and Dolphin on a Shell, ca 1785
By Derby
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning porcelain figure of Neptune with a dolphin standing on a sea shell, made by Derby around the year 1785. The figure is in beautiful original condition.
We have one other Neptune figure from 1765, please see separate listing.
The Derby Porcelain factory has its roots in the late 1740s, when Andrew Planché, a Walloon Huguenot refugee, started making simple porcelain toys shaped like animals in his back yard. In 1756 Staffordshire enameller...
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1780s English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Meissen Set of 13 Hand-Painted Desert Plates with Fruit Decoration
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This set of antique desert or side plates was made by the renowned Meissen factory of Germany in approximately 1880 in a period Victorian style. The plates are composed of porcelain ...
Category
Late 19th Century German Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Meissen 68-Piece Floral Dinner Service
Located in London, GB
Antique Meissen 68-piece floral dinner service
German, c. 1900
Largest serving dish: Height 6cm, width 52.5cm, depth 37.5cm
Square salad bowl:...
Category
Early 1900s German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain Compotes Loch Creran and Clark Castle Scotland blue gilt painted
Located in Mobile, AL
Fantastic Pair of cobalt gilt edge compotes with scenes of Scotland. Entire sets of dishes with Scottish landmarks were produced, especially for the American Market in the 1870's, b...
Category
1870s English Late Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Davenport Hand Painted Porcelain Plate
Located in East Geelong, VIC
The centre of this Davenport porcelain plate is decorated with a hand painted scene of a farmhouse on the edge of a dense wood, with sheep grazing in a meadow in the foreground, on t...
Category
1870s English High Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Plates, Warren Hastings Shape, Chelsea, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pair of plates in ‘Warren Hastings’ shape, with fine rococo moulding, decorated with geese and other birds to the reserves; typical sprays and sprigs...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 12 Antique Meissen Porcelain 'Old Ozier' Pattern Cabinet or Dinner Plates
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine set of 12 antique, 18th century German porcelain plates.
By the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory.
In the Old Ozier pattern.
Each ...
Category
1760s German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Set German Dresden Meissen Cabinet Plates Still Life Flowers Pair
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An exceptionally rare set of two German Meissen Floral Themed Porcelain Cabinet Plates of circular outline, last quarter of the Nineteenth Century.
Each central reserve exquisitely hand painted scattered views of decorative still life of Summer Flowers and Old Roses on an off-white ground.
The wide raised gilt shaped edge basket weave molded borders similarly hand decorated.
Condition: Exceptional condition for such early pieces, with no losses or evidence of wear to gilding. Crossed swords marks in underglaze blue, impressed numerals on each verso.
Diameter: (an impressive) 9.5” (24cm).
Location: Dublin City, Ireland.
Affordable fixed charge Worldwide Store to door shipping.
Provenance: From the Collection of Kenneth Neame...
Category
Late 19th Century German Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique 19th Century Hand Painted and Gilt Porcelain Covered Center Bowl, Tureen
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Beautiful hand painted and hand gilt round and broad urn with lid. the floral decoration with gilt handles, original lid with delicate vine decoration all over. There are ladybugs, b...
Category
1880s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Antique 18C Meissen Porcelain Neuozier Marcolini Period Plates with Flowers
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine pair of antique Neuozier pattern plates.
By the Royal Meissen Porcelain Manufactory.
Decorated with Deutsche Blumen floral sprays to the center and sides including roses...
Category
Late 18th Century German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Irish Belleek Porcelain Aberdeen Pitcher Ewer Salt Centerpiece Ireland
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stunning assembled Collection of three wonderful early Irish Black Mark Belleek Items to include a quite rare seldom seen rope handled small bowl.
All pieces are Second Period Bl...
Category
19th Century Irish Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain, Pottery
2 Antique Staffordshire Porcelain Spaniel Wally Dog Figurine Pair
Located in Dayton, OH
Pair of antique 19th century Staffordshire porcelain figurines in the shape of King Charles Spaniels with chain leashes. Measure: 7".
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique 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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