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Porcelain For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1920s
Antique Old Paris Porcelain - Porcelaine de Paris Dessert Service with Basket
Located in BAAMBRUGGE, NL
Antique Old Paris porcelain dessert service with a basket on stand. Handpainted with several flowers and finessed with gold decoration....
Category
1890s French French Provincial Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
A Chamberlain & Co Worcester Amorial Crest Sample Plaque c.1840
Located in Exeter, GB
A Chamberlain & Co Worcester Amorial Crest Sample Plaque c.1840. This plaque was probably hung in the Chamberlain New Bond Street showroom to illustrate the various crests which could be added to a special order such as tea sets, dinner and dessert services...
Category
19th Century Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
A Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester Porcelain 'Warwick' Vase, Circa 1815
Located in Exeter, GB
A Flight, Barr And Barr Worcester 'Warwick' Vase, Circa 1815-20. Decorated with a gilt gadrooned rim, gilt twisted double vine stem and leaf handles, and gilded floral and scroll dec...
Category
19th Century European Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique English Mintons Porcelain Chinoiserie Waste Bowl Circa 1830
By Minton
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mintons (English, 1793-2005), circa 1830. A very fine quality antique porcelain waste bowl decorated in a rust ground and heavy gilding. A large pagoda is painted to one side of the ...
Category
Early 19th Century British Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
A Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester Porcelain Campana shape Vase c.1825
Located in Exeter, GB
A Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester Porcelain vase c.1825-1835. Of inverted bell shape, decorated with afinely painted panel of flowers by Samuel Astles with raised and tooled gilding, f...
Category
19th Century British Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Teacup and Milk Jug, Pale Yellow, Gilt and Flowers, ca 1824
Located in London, GB
A teacup and saucer with milk jug in the “melted snow” shape with double drop handles, pale yellow ground with rich gilt and cobalt blue acanthus pattern and finely painted flower re...
Category
1820s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coalport John Rose Sucrier, Cobalt Blue, Gilt, Flowers and Fruits ca 1815
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning sucrier with cover made by John Rose at Coalport in about 1815. The sucrier is decorated in underglaze cobalt blue and has beautifully hand painted flowers and fru...
Category
1810s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
8 Meissen Germany 19thc Cobalt Reticulated Porcelain Plates with Courting Scenes
Located in Savannah, GA
A ring of stunning cobalt blue frames the center of the courting scenes on this lovely eight piece set of painted porcelain plates. The reticulated basketweave edges are highlighted with gilt touches throughout, as well as additional gilt around the cobalt rings...
Category
19th Century Romantic Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Splendour Clock 'The Four Seasons' by E.A. Leuteritz, Around 1880
Located in Vienna, AT
The clock case was designed by Ernst August Leuteritz using old moulds in the Rococo style: The clock case rises on a base with gold-highlighted rocailles, richly decorated with deli...
Category
1880s German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Fine 4 Pc, Spode Porcelain Rust and Gilt Personal Tea Service C. 1820
By Spode
Located in Atlanta, GA
Spode (English, founded 1770), circa 1820. An extremely fine quality and rare personal tea service in rust and gold. The surfaces are decorated in an imari style pallet - laurel leaf...
Category
Early 19th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Empire Period Porcelain de Paris Water Pitcher with Gilt Decoration
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A superb early 19th century Empire period water pitcher in Porcelain de Paris and finely embellished with gilt in a striking, hand-painted design of flowers, leaves and other decorat...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain, Paint
Coalport John Rose Porcelain Dessert Service, Imari Pattern, ca 1805
Located in London, GB
This is a rather stunning 25-piece dessert service made by John Rose at Coalport around the year 1805. It consists a centre piece on four feet, two oval dishes, two shell dishes, two...
Category
Early 1800s English George III Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Worcester Dessert Plate
Located in Tampa, FL
An Imari pattern Royal Worcester dessert plate with gold gilt. Circa 1890s, England. Five available.
Category
1890s English Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Porcelain Leaf Dish, Periwinkle Blue with Yellow Flower, ca 1822
Located in London, GB
A one-handled leaf dish with white melted snow and holly leaf border on a periwinkle ground, and a beautiful flower study of a yellow ranunculus in the centre
There are several other items available in near-identical style, see separate listings.
Pattern 507
Year: ca 1822
Size: 26cm X 21.5cm (10.25” X 8.5”)
Condition: some rubbing
The Samuel Alcock factory was operative in Staffordshire between 1822 and 1856, after which it was bought by Sir James Duke and Nephews. The factory started as a partnership between the young Samuel Alcock and the older Ralph Stevenson, who provided the factory and capital. Alcock quickly took the factory to great heights, building one of the biggest factories of its time. Alcock jumped on the new Rococo Revival fashion and served a huge new middle class market. The reason we now don't hear much about Samuel Alcock porcelain...
Category
1820s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Old Paris Porcelain - Porcelaine de Paris Pastry Plates and Cups
Located in BAAMBRUGGE, NL
Beautiful set Old Paris porcelain cake pastry plates with 6 cups and saucers and 4 cups without saucers.
The plates is decorated with a rococo style edge of gold and has the Monogra...
Category
1880s French French Provincial Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Berlin (KPM) Porcelain Plaque Of A Young Woman, In a Giltwood Frame
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Very Fine Berlin (KPM) Porcelain Plaque Of A Young Woman, In a Giltwood Frame.
The plaque has an impressed KPM sceptre mark to the reverse with impressed number 315_255 and a letter H. A paper label for the studio of 'Franz Xavier Thallmaier, Mucnich'.
This fine KPM plaque is superbly painted with a portrait bust of a young woman holding a music scroll and a laurel branch, possibly representing St. Cecilia. The plaque is set in a giltwood frame.
Franz Xaver Thallmaier (1890-1910) established in Munich in 1890 one of the most prominent and successful porcelain painting studios in Germany. He employed a number of talented porcelain painters specialising in portraits and genre scenes after artists such as Joseph Stieler, Wilhelm Kray...
Category
19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain, Giltwood
Pair of Chinese Rose Medallion Plates
Located in Wilson, NC
Pair of Chinese rose medallion plates, the rim with stylized flowers in a light turquoise color , interior features alternating panels sep...
Category
1840s Chinese Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Presidential Oyster Plate Designed by Theodore R. Davis for Haviland & Co.
Located in Brisbane, QLD
This unusual porcelain oyster plate dates to the 1880s and was crafted in Limoges from a design by Theodore R Davis for President and Mrs. Rutherford B Hayes. In 1879 there was a com...
Category
1880s French Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Plate, Melted Snow Border, Periwinkle Blue Lilac, Flowers, ca 1822
Located in London, GB
A plate with white melted snow border on a periwinkle ground with tiny gilt stars, with a beautifully painted flower bouquet in the centre
There are several other items available in...
Category
1820s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Old Paris Porcelain Coffee and Tea Set, 40 Pieces, 19th Century, France
By Old Paris
Located in Delft, NL
Old Paris porcelain coffee and tea set, 40 pieces, 19th century
A white ribbed porcelain with gold paint service with a very large coffee pot, teapot, lidded sugar pot, a creamer and 18 cups and saucers
Coffeepot measures 29 high, 20 cm wide and the depth is 12 (1370 gram)
Teapot measures 21.5 high, 19 cm wide and the depth is 11 (808 gram)
Sugar pot measures 19 high, 11 cm diagonal (540 gram)
Creamer measures 21 high, 12 cm wide and the depth is 7.5 (460 gram)
Cups measures 10.5 high, 7 cm diagonal
And the saucers measures 3 cm high and 12.5 cm / 13.5 cm diagonal (264 gram per cups and saucers)
“Old Paris” porcelain, or as the French say, “Vieux Paris” porcelain, prefers not to a single Manufacturer, but to more than thirty porcelain sources, based around Paris, from late 18th century till, circa 1870.
This “Old Paris” French porcelain...
Category
19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Parrot, late 19th century.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
An enchanting late 19th century Meissen porcelain figure of a Parrot perched on a tree stump, having wonderful bolding colouring and having blue crossed swords signature to the base....
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Beautiful Antique Old Paris Porcelain - Porcelaine de Paris - Coffeeservice
Located in BAAMBRUGGE, NL
Beautiful antique Old Paris porcelain (Porcelaine de Paris) coffee service. Handpainted with bouquet of flowers and finished with gold decorations. T...
Category
1860s French French Provincial Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
A Garniture of Minton Porcelain Vases decorated by Thomas Steel c.1830
By Minton
Located in Exeter, GB
A Garniture of Minton Porcelain Vases decorated by Thomas Steele c1830. Each vase of 'Elgin' shape, finely decorated with a well executed panel of flowers on a marble table by Thomas...
Category
Early 19th Century British Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 19th Century Small, Shaped Satsuma Hand Painted Pin Trays
Located in North Salem, NY
The attractive set of 19th-century small, shaped, hand-painted Satsuma pin trays is a collection of delicate and ornate pieces that showcase the artistry of Satsuma ware from the Mei...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
A pair of Chamberlain Worcester Sir James Yeo Service Tureens c.1815
Located in Exeter, GB
A pair of Chamberlain Worcester armorial dessert tureens and covers from the Admiral Yeo service c.1815-1820, each of twin-handled semi-reeded campana form on spreading foot, painted and enriched in gilding with the crest, motto and Badge of the Order of the Bath of Admiral Sir James Yeo, the borders richly painted in an Imari palette with flowering shrubs within oval cartouches reserved on royal blue ground gilt with stylised ornament, the gently domed cover with gilded pineapple finial and gilt highlighted acanthus leaf decoration within conforming border, puce script mark to underside of each cover, ‘Chamberlains Regent...
Category
Early 19th Century British Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique 19th Century German Meissen Porcelain Lady, Circa 1880's.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique 19th Century German Meissen Porcelain Lady, Circa 1880's.
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Solitaire Tea Set, Cobalt Blue, Gilt Vines and Flowers, ca 1825
Located in London, GB
A solitaire tea set consisting of a teapot with cover, a milk jug and a small cup and saucer, in “melted snow” shape, the cup with double drop handle, with deep cobalt blue ground, r...
Category
1820s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Potpourri Vase, Green, Double Cover, Landscape, Flowers, ca 1835
Located in London, GB
A potpourri vase with double cover, pale yellow/beige ground with apple green details, Rococo shape with fruit finial and scroll handles and foot; a flower reserve on one side and a ...
Category
1830s English Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique 19th Century German Meissen Porcelain Lady with Flowers, Circa 1880's.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique 19th Century German Meissen Porcelain Lady with Flowers, Circa 1880's.
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique French Sevres Style Turquoise Glazed Porcelain Bronze Centerpiece Bowl
Located in New York, NY
19th century porcelain centerpiece bowl with oval shape, celeste bleu turquoise glaze and gilt bronze mounts including figural handles depicting cherubs. Unsigned.
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Materials
Bronze
Two Beautiful Antique Old Paris Porcelain (Porcelaine de Paris) Cornet Vases
Located in BAAMBRUGGE, NL
Two particularly beautiful antique French Old Paris porcelain vases. Richly decorated with gold and blue decorations and beautiful hand-painted flower bouquets in the center of each ...
Category
1860s French Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Rathbone Porcelain Sucrier & Cover, Cobalt Blue Gilt Artichoke, "Blue V", ca1825
By Rathbone
Located in London, GB
This is an boldly decorated sucrier with cover made by Rathbone in about 1825 and decorated in the famous pattern 1088, which was a pattern done by a factory often called the "Blue V...
Category
1820s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Staffordshire Bowl
Located in Tampa, FL
A rare Staffordshire blue and white transfer ware bowl in great condition. England, circa 1820s.
Category
1820s English Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique French Sevres Cobalt Blue Porcelain Casket 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a fabulous antique French Sevres porcelain Cobalt Blue ormolu mounted casket, Circa 1880 in date.
The shaped hinged cover decorated with a...
Category
1880s French Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of porcelain vases, polychrome with bucolic scenes and gilded edges, Italy
Located in Cuneo, Italy (CN)
Ancient pair of fine porcelain vases, handmade and polychrome decorated with bucolic scenes and gilded edges, from Italy, 19th century, each measuring w 20 x h 29 x d 20 cm
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Early Meissen Rococo Group 'Love and Indulgence' by J.C. Schönheit, Ca 1840
Located in Vienna, AT
Exceptional Meissen porcelain genre group:
Young mother seated on a magnificent Louis XVI-style armchair, her left foot set down on a low stool, a boy lying on his stomach on her left thigh, his white shirt slipped up to reveal his bare buttocks, which the mother has probably just struck with the cane in her left hand, to her right a girl in a dress and hat decorated with feathers, clasping her mother's arm so that she can no longer strike the boy.
The group is based on an oval pedestal with gold heightened frieze decoration on the sides.
Particularly elaborate, detailed design and staffage.
This model was based on drawings by Johann Eleazar Zeissig, known as 'Schenau' (1737-1806).
Designed by JOHANN CARL SCHÖNHEIT (1730 - 1805) in 1788
started working as an apprentice in the Meissen factory in 1741 and has been in a responsible position since 1768. For more than 20 years, Schönheit was an employee of both J.J. Kändler as well as from M.V. Acier, who entered the Meissen factory in 1762. After Kändler's death in 1775, Schönheit was head of the model department until 1794.
Design of the model in 1788
Manufactory: Meissen Germany
Dating: made around 1840
Material: white porcelain, glossy finish
Technique: handmade porcelain, finest hand painting
Dimensions:
height: 25,5 cm / 10.03 in
width: 18,0 cm / 7.08 in
depth: 16,0 cm / 6.29 in
Marks:
Blue Meissen crossed sword mark
Model number: I 66 / former's number 35 / painter Da..
Bibliography:
Thomas & Sabine Bergmann, Meissen Artist's - Figures / Erlangen Germany 2014, Model numbers A1 - Z99, page 31...
Category
Early 19th Century German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Dessert Set Coalport Porcelain Dishes Hand Painted 32 Pieces England Circa 1810
Located in Katonah, NY
This hand painted porcelain dessert service features the exquisite Blue Chrysanthemum pattern, combining deep blue with the allure of gold.
It's a fabulous combination!
The golden chrysanthemum leaves are richly gilded, creating a beautiful contrast against the deep blue background.
The 32-piece service consists of 21 dessert plates and all the serving shapes: a centerpiece and pairs of square-shaped dishes, shell-shaped dishes, oval-shaped dishes, and a fabulous pair of sauce tureens with their underplates.
Made by Coalport in England...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique 19th Century German KPM Porcelain Lidded Bowl Tureen Birds Butterflies
Located in Portland, OR
A very elegant antique 19th century KPM porcelain hand-painted & gilded lidded bowl/tureen, decorated with birds & butterflies, 1840-1895.
This very handsome lidded tureen made by th...
Category
1880s German Belle Époque Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Pair of Paris Porcelain Gilded Coffee Cups and Saucers
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
An exquisite pair of antique white 'Porcelaine de Paris' teacups and saucers, intricately hand- painted with gilt decoration throughout. Dating from the early 19th century, the cups ...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Set of 4 Plates, Pastel Colours, Birds and Flowers, ca 1857
Located in London, GB
A set of four pierced dessert plates, 3 in the “Staffordshire” shape, in harlequin pastel colours with gilt, three with named birds and one with a flower
Patterns 3/9414, 3/9772 and...
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1850s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
19th C Haviland & Co Limoges Portrait Plate of Anne of Austria, Queen of France
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th Century Haviland & Co. Limoges Portrait Plate of Anne of Austria, Queen of France
H&Co., France, 1888–1896
Signed lower right 'E. Furlaud', inscri...
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Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Porcelain, Love Series: Cupid Mailing a Love Letter with Love Bird C1870
Located in New York, NY
Meissen Porcelain, Love Series: Cupid Mailing a Love Letter with Love Bird C1870, SUPREME
A Meissen porcelain figure from the Love Series: Cupid Mailing a Love Letter with a Love Bi...
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1860s German Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
2 Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Bowls from the Ship Wrecked "Tek Sing"
Located in Palm Beach, FL
In 1822 the Chinese Junk "Tek Sing" or true star sank in the south
China sea, where the ship and its cargo remained until salvaged in
1999. These antique blue...
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Early 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Monumental Antique Japanese Meiji Period Imari Porcelain Charger Plate 1880
Located in Portland, OR
A fine & monumetal Japanese Meiji period Porcelain charger/plate, circa 1890.
The charger is very finely decorated with underglaze blue, red iron oxide glazes and heightened with gil...
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1880s Japanese Meiji Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Large Japanese Imari Charger, circa 1880. 21.5" (55cm)
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th Century Japanese Imari porcelain, hand painted charger depicting a six fold screen with a men on horse back in a rural mountainous setting. Fans, floral...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique KPM Berlin potpourri vases with Watteau scenes around 1830, 64 cm
Located in Berlin, DE
Antique KPM Berlin potpourri vases with Watteau scenes around 1830, 64 cm
Painted on both sides. Rich naturalistic flower painting and hunting scene in an idyllic landscape.
Porcel...
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Early 19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
A Very Rare Early 19th C. Derby Porcelain Figure of a Tiger, England Circa 1800
By Derby
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very charming, naively modelled & hand painted figure of a tiger shown partially seated atop a rocaille base decorated with applied foliage & teal accents.
Provenance: the underside retaining the retail decal for noted British ceramics specialist & BADA member, John Howard Antiques.
Category
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Old Paris Porcelain Wash Jug and Basin with Gilt Decoration
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A superb early 19th century Empire period wash basin (with saucer) and tall pitcher, beautifully crafted from Old Paris Porcelain and featuring a very striking hand-painted polychrom...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain, Paint
Antique 49 Pc Charles Ahrenfeldt French Limoges Porcelain Dinnerware
Located in Dayton, OH
49 piece partial set of Limoges porcelain dinnerware by Charles Ahrenfeldt featuring gilded edges and a printed patterned border of interl...
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Late 19th Century Late Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Two Antique Flow Blue Pottery Small Bowls with Dog & Birds, 19th C
Located in Big Flats, NY
Two Antique Flow Blue Pottery Small Bowls with Dog & Birds, 19th C
Measure - 1.5"h x 5.75"diam
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19th Century Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Old Paris Porcelain Wash Jug and Basin with Gilt Decoration
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A stylish vintage pitcher and matching wash basin, crafted from Old Paris Porcelain and featuring intricate gilt decoration of palmettes and leaves on a white background. The jug is ...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique 1850's Limoges Coffee Pot & Lidded Sugar Bowl Gold Squash Blossom
By Limoges
Located in New Orleans, LA
Incredibly scarce and wonderful John Vogt & Cie (pre- Tressemanes & Vogt) Limoges France tall coffee pot and matching large, lidded sugar bowl.
The coffee pot is 10" tall with squash...
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1850s French Napoleon III Antique Porcelain
Materials
Gold
19th Century English Wedgwood creamware child's service
By Wedgwood
Located in Delft, NL
19th Century English Wedgwood creamware child's service
An English Wedgwood creamware child's service marked with the Wedgwood impressed marks. The 3 letter marks, was used during 1...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique English Longport Attributed Creamware Blue Willow Transfer Plate
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique English soft paste porcelain or creamware plate.
With a blue willow underglaze blue transfer decoration.
Attributed to L...
Category
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Creamware
19th Century Paris Porcelain Toiletry Bottle with Stopper
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
This pretty little 'flacon' bottle, complete with its original stopper, is made from delicate white 'Porcelaine de Paris' and dates from the early 19th century. Both bottle and stop...
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19th Century French Empire Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Porcelain Muffin Dish, White, Flowers by William Pollard, ca 1826
By William Pollard, Samuel Alcock & Co.
Located in London, GB
A muffin dish with cover, simple white ground with fruit basket finial surrounded by moulded acanthus leaves, with fine flower sprays and wild strawberries by William Pollard
Proven...
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1820s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Large French Sevres Porcelain Casket 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a fabulous, larger than usual, antique French Sevres porcelain ormolu mounted casket, Circa 1860 in date.
The shaped hinged cover decorated with a hand painted courting cou...
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1860s French Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bing & Grøndahl, Denmark. Set of five porcelain plates hand-painted with flowers
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Bing & Grøndahl, Denmark. A set of five porcelain plates hand-painted with various polychrome flower motifs and gold rim.
From the 1920s.
Marked.
First factory quality.
In perfect co...
Category
1920s Danish Vintage 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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