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Porcelain For Sale
Wedgwood, England, Coffee Service for 12 People in Hand Painted Porcelain
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Wedgwood, England. Coffee service for 12 people in hand painted porcelain with flower decoration and birds, circa 1930.
The coffee cup measures: 6 x 6 cm.
Saucer diameter: 12.2 cm....
Category
1930s English Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$560 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Large Meissen King Vulture standing on a tree trunk, around 1880
Located in Berlin, DE
Large Meissen King Vulture standing on a tree trunk, around 1880
Large statuette depicting a king vulture sitting on a base modeled on a tree trunk decorated with foliage, with a slightly tilted head and rich polychrome natural decoration.
Based on a model by J.-J. Kaendler from 1734 (original model in the Dresden State Art Collections, inv. PE 78, attached photo).
Marked on the back with crossed swords.
19th century.
Height: 71cm.
The King Vulture (Sarcorhamphus papa) is almost 75 cm tall and is found in southern Mexico to Brazil. Lit.: Bergmann-Animals, p 339, cat. no. 3960; Lit.: Jean Louis Sponsel, Cabinet pieces from the Meissner Porcelain...
Category
1880s German Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Copenhagen Service No. 607, Colossal Serving Dish in Porcelain
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen service no. 607.
Colossal serving dish in porcelain. Gold border with foliage.
Model number 607/9592.
Dated 1943.
Measures: 47 x 35 cm.
In excellent conditio...
Category
1940s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate in porcelain. Dated 1947.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen Christmas plate in porcelain, from 1947.
Marked.
First factory quality.
Perfect condition.
Dimensions: D 18.5 cm.
Category
1940s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$160 Sale Price
20% Off
Set 12 19th C Dessert Plates Hand Painted Polychrome Enamel Flowers Gilt Trim
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This set of 12 19th c English hand painted dessert plates feature detailed depictions of floral bouquets in bright primary colors that will blend beautifully with many styles and colorways. Add these to cobalt blue, cranberry, green or pink dinner plates...
Category
1890s English Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Of 19th German Meissen Painted Porcelain Models Of Female Cockatoos
Located in Dublin, IE
A pair of 19th century Meissen painted porcelain models of Female Cockatoos, sitting on a tree stump with flowers and foliage, with underglazed blue crossed swords mark to base and i...
Category
19th Century German Baroque Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen, Germany, Green Ivy Vine, two large porcelain coffee cups with saucers.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Meissen, Germany, Green Ivy Vine, two large coffee cups with matching saucers.
Hand-painted.
1920s/30s.
Marked.
Third factory quality. One saucer is first factory quality.
In perfec...
Category
1920s German Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$160 Sale Price / set
20% Off
19th Century Old Paris Porcelain Centerpiece, Hand-Painted Florals
By Old Paris
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning piece of Old Paris porcelain that features two sides of beautiful hand-painted floral panels, hand-cut work and hand-painted trim. Nicely shaped with a long and deep boat ...
Category
1840s French Empire Revival Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$1,450 Sale Price
58% Off
Bing & Grøndahl. Four porcelain plates with motifs from Carl Larssons paintings.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Bing & Grøndahl, Denmark. A set of four porcelain plates featuring motifs from Carl Larssons paintings. Reticulated rim.
Approximately 1960s.
Limited edition.
Marked.
Perfect conditi...
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$160 Sale Price / set
20% Off
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
$480 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Ode to the Woods, Contemporary Porcelain Dinner Plate with Caribou and Flower
Located in MILAN, IT
A Caribou, a typical animal of the woods is gently painted on this dinner plate with soft black tones and it is surrounded by a delicate and intriguing mix of wild flowers and leaves...
Category
2010s Italian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Country Style Porcelain Bowl with Easter Hare Figure Sofina Boutique Kitzbuehel
Located in Kitzbühel, Tirol
Completely handmade porcelain bowl with a hands-free naturalistic painted Easter hare figure with black spots. The bunny is sitting on the side of the bowl for decorating nuts or swe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary German Country Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Midcentury French White Porcelain Coffee Cups by Jean Luce Thomas Manufacture
By Jean Luce
Located in Crespières, FR
Jean Luce Paris white porcelain 8 coffee cups and saucers Circa 1950
JEAN LUCE (1895-1964), a member of the UAM movement, worked on the balance between form and function in the glas...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Friedl Kjellberg for Arabia, Finland. Set of four coffee cups with saucers
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Friedl Kjellberg for Arabia, Finland. A set of four coffee cups with matching saucers in rice porcelain.
Approximately from the 1960s.
Marked.
In perfect condition.
Cup: Diameter 7.0...
Category
1960s Finnish Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$256 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Vintage Fornasetti Surrealist Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate, #319
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Fornasetti Surrealist Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate #319,
Gorgonzola Cheese,
Atelier Fornasetti
20th Century
The Surreal Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Vari...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Plate Inspired by the Blue Family India Compagny, Mid 19th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Beautiful plate inspired by the Company of India of the Qianlong period, 18th century, but dating from the 19th century. This porcelain soup plate, with a flower represented in the c...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Copenhagen Blue Fluted Half Lace, hand-painted coffee pot in porcelain.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen Blue Fluted Plain, hand-painted coffee pot in porcelain..
Handle with snail.
Model number: 1/48.
Dating: 1969-1974
In perfect condition.
Marked.
First factory qualit...
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$256 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Early 19th Century Spode Blue and White "Pagoda" Stone China Bowls, 1825
By Spode
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Early 19th Century Spode Blue and White "Pagoda" Stone China Bowls, England, Circa 1825
A finely preserved pair of early 19th-century English transferware bowls by Spode, de...
Category
Early 19th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Four Bavarian Porcelain Cups and Saucers, 20th Century.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Four Bavarian porcelain cups and saucers, 20th century.
Four early 20th century Bavarian porcelain cups and saucers.
H: 5cm, D: 13cm
Category
20th Century German Art Nouveau Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Derby Porcelain Coffee Cup, Artichoke Pattern in Turquoise, Georgian ca 1785
By Derby
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful coffee cup and saucer made by Derby in about 1785. The set has the distinctive "artichoke" moulding and a bright turquoise ground with the white artichoke surface...
Category
1780s English George III Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen, Germany. Blue Onion pattern. Large sugar bowl in porcelain
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Meissen, Germany. Blue Onion pattern. Large sugar bowl.
Hand-painted in blue. Lid adorned with relief flower.
Mid-20th century.
Marked.
In excellent condition.
Third factory quality....
Category
Mid-20th Century German Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$192 Sale Price
20% Off
Villeroy & Boch Milk Jug Creamer Burgenland Decor Vintage, Germany
Located in Bastogne, BE
Vintage Villeroy & Boch milk/creamer jug in the blue and white Burgenland design.
This is a beautiful rare vintage pot dating from the 1940s and stamped on the bottom.
Mettlach cer...
Category
1970s German Romantic Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Wedgwood Rosso Antico Egyptian Revival Teapot
By Wedgwood
Located in Sarasota, FL
Wedgwood Rosso Antico Egyptian Revival Teapot. The teapot surmounted by figural black crocodile finial, radiating ribbed lid, body decorated with Egypti...
Category
Early 19th Century English Egyptian Revival Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
"Nudes in Paradise, " Spectacular Wall Charger, High Style Art Deco by Sevres
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the most spectacular high style Art Deco pieces we have ever offered, this large wall charger depicting two female nudes and a deer in an idyllic, color-drenched garden was made in 1927 by the famed Sevres porcelain manufactory in France. The designer was Jean Beaumont, who is known for designing some of the most ambitious and striking of Sevres' Art Deco vases and other pieces in the 1920s and 30s, and the ceramic artist who applied the glazes was Adrien-Auguste Leduc, who worked at Sèvres from 1923 until 1948. Made only two years after the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes was held in Paris, which gave the Art Deco style its name many years later, the theme of this charger -- and its stylized, elongated nudes...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Very Large Antique French Sevres Style Porcelain Vase
Located in London, GB
Very large antique French Sèvres style porcelain vase
French, Late 19th Century
Height 154cm, diameter 41cm
This fantastic vase is the work of J. Pascault, a famed porcelain artist of the late 19th Century who specialised in the production of Sevres-style pieces. It is beautifully executed, and especially impressive given its large size of one and a half metres (almost 5 feet) in height.
The vase is tall and slender in shape, set on a gilt bronze plinth, and surmounted by a cover with a pinecone finial. Its ovoid body is decorated around its exterior in the Rococo taste: showing a female figure and winged putti in a landscape...
Category
Late 19th Century French Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Ormolu
Vide poche Christian Lacroix en porcelaine série "FOLLEMENT" Français Baroque
Located in London, England
Très Elégant Vide Poche Christian Lacroix en porcelaine de la série Follement à décor d'un œillet rose.
Le vide poche est encore dans son carton d'origine avec son étiquette et le ru...
Category
Late 20th Century European Baroque Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$363 Sale Price
20% Off
Meissen, Germany, large Blue Onion sauce boat on foot.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Meissen, Germany, large Blue Onion sauce boat on foot.
Hand-decorated with blue flowers.
Mid-20th century.
Marked.
Perfect condition. Third factory quality.
Dimensions: L 26.0 c...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$256 Sale Price
20% Off
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1993
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1993 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. The dish is titled “Away in a manger”. When Rosenthal asked the Danish artist to illu...
Category
1990s German Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Meissen Autumn Figural Candlestick in Hand Painted Porcelain
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Antique Meissen autumn figural candlestick in hand painted porcelain. Model number 1190.
19th century.
Measures: 28.5 x 13 cm.
In excellent condition...
Category
19th Century German Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$2,400 Sale Price
20% Off
French Napoleon III 19th Century Hand-Painted Porcelain Vase with Floral Décor
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Napoleon III Paris porcelain vase from the second half of the 19th century with floral décor and parcel-gilt accents. Born in France during the ever changing 19th century, this porcelain vase features an exquisite décor of colorful flowers painted on the vase's belly and sides. Ranging from pink to orange, purple and green, the décor stands...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Fornasetti for Rosenthal Porcelain Gilded Medusa Desert or Salad Plates Vintage
By Rosenthal, Fornasetti
Located in North Miami, FL
This set of 4 vintage classic porcelain plates are a collaboration between Fornasetti and Rosenthal. They have the 3 medusas on top centering the sun motif between the sun’s rays and...
Category
1950s German Classical Roman Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Gold
Meissen, Germany. Large porcelain bowl with a motif of a pink rose.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Meissen, Germany. Large porcelain bowl hand-painted with a motif of a pink rose. Gold rim.
Approximately 1920/30s.
In perfect condition.
Marked.
Third factory quality.
Dimensions: D ...
Category
1920s German Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$256 Sale Price
20% Off
Four Rosenthal Plates in Hand-Painted Porcelain, 1930s/40s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Four Rosenthal plates in hand-painted porcelain.
Pink flowers and border. 1930s / 40s.
Diameter: 17 cm.
In excellent condition.
Stamped.
Category
1930s German Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$160 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Worcester Porcelain Deep Plate, Aesop Fable Three Foxes, ca 1780
Located in London, GB
This is a very rare deep plate made by Worcester around 1780. The plate has a basket weave rim and a very charming image of an Aesop fable about three foxes conversing under a large ...
Category
1780s English George III Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Rare Coalport England Indian Tree Set of 5 Cups with Plates and Serving Platter
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Set of 5 dessert plates and cups and large rectangular serving or sandwich platter was made of fine porcelain by Coalport China Company in England. I...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Ode to the Woods, Contemporary Porcelain Dinner Plate with Bear and Flowers
Located in MILAN, IT
A black bear, a typical animal of the woods is gently painted on this dinner plate, with soft black tones and it is surrounded by a delicate and intriguing mix of wild flowers and le...
Category
2010s Italian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Worcester Pair of Shell Dishes, French Green Stencil Pattern, ca 1770
Located in London, GB
This is a pair of very rare and beautiful shell dishes made by Worcester around 1770 in their 1st or "Dr Wall" period. The dishes have one scrolled handle and have a shell-like shape...
Category
1770s English Georgian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bjørn Wiinblad for Rosenthal, 10 Plates in Porcelain with Gold Decoration, 1980s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Bjørn Wiinblad for Rosenthal. 10 plates in porcelain with gold decoration. 1980s.
Measure: Diameter: 21.5 cm.
In excellent condition.
Stamped.
Category
1980s German Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$400 Sale Price / set
20% Off
KPM, Berlin, Tea Service for 12 People in Hand Painted Porcelain with Flowers
Located in Copenhagen, DK
KPM, Berlin. Tea service for 12 people in hand painted porcelain with flowers and gold decoration, circa 1930.
Consisting of 12 teacups with saucer...
Category
1930s German Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$640 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Floral Archway Yellow Green and White Porcelain Menu
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Vintage porcelain menu featuring an arched floral garland against a yellow background.
Category
Early 20th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique French Sevres Porcelain Portrait Plate of Napoleon Bonaparte, Circa 1846
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Sevres Château de Saint-Cloud Porcelain Portrait Plate of Napoleon Bonaparte, Signed DeBrie, Circa 1846.
Pristine plate in cobalt blue and cream with intricately han...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Porcelain Plate, Imari
Located in Lisboa, Lisboa
Plate, in Chinese porcelain for export, Imari. Polychrome decoration in blue, rouge de fer and gold, with a landscape with pagoda, flowers and trees. Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period (1...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Baroque Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
B&G, Bing & Grondahl Saxon Flower, Four Dinner Plates Decorated with Flowers
Located in Copenhagen, DK
B&G, Bing & Grondahl Saxon flower.
Four dinner plates decorated with flowers and gold rim.
Approx. 1920s.
In perfect condition.
Marked.
First factory quality.
Dimensions: D 24....
Category
1920s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$384 Sale Price / set
20% Off
KPM, Berlin, Seven Royal Ivory Tea Cups with Saucers in Cream-Colored Porcelain
Located in Copenhagen, DK
KPM, Berlin. Seven Royal Ivory tea cups with saucers in cream-colored porcelain with gold decoration. 1920s.
The cup measures: 9.3 x 5.5 cm.
Sauc...
Category
1920s German Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$480 Sale Price / set
20% Off
La Menagerie Ottomane Elephant Porcelain Dinner Plate, Handmade in Italy
Located in ROCCAVIVARA CB, IT
Discover the fascinating world of exotic animals once hidden within the Sultan’s palaces, often gifted by foreign dignitaries and treasured as symbols of wonder and prestige. La Mena...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique English Porcelain Pseudo-Tobacco Leaf Pattern Tea Cup & Saucer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique porcelain cup and saucer.
In the Pseudo-Tobacco Leaf pattern, mimicking the Chinese Export pattern of the late 18th ...
Category
Early 19th Century English Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Copenhagen Blue Flower Angular, set of four plates.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen Blue Flower Angular, a set of four plates.
Model: 617.
Dating from 1991-1995.
Marked.
First factory quality.
In perfect condition.
Dimensions: Diameter 17.6 cm.
Category
1990s Danish Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$160 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica fruit plate in openwork porcelain. Dated 1968
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica fruit plate in openwork porcelain with hand-painted nuts and gold decoration.
Model number 429/3584. Dated 1968.
Diameter: 22.8 cm.
In excellent condit...
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$1,040 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Early 1900s Japanese Kinkozan Satsuma Picture Frame Japan Flowers
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Description
A Japanese Satsuma photograph frame, Kinkozan, Meiji/Taisho period
Of gourd outline and painted with the 'three abundances' of peaches, pomegranate and finger citron wi...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$3,823 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Meissen Porcelain Vase with Hand-Painted Flowers, Ca 1900
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Antique Meissen porcelain vase with hand-painted flowers.
Purple and gold decoration. Ca. 1900.
Measures: 18.5 x 11 cm.
In excellen...
Category
Early 20th Century German Biedermeier Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$560 Sale Price
20% Off
Five Antique Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Plates, Late 19th C
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Five antique Royal Copenhagen porcelain plates with hand-painted flowers, insects and a gold border.
Late 19th century.
Diameter:...
Category
Late 19th Century Danish Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$400 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Set of 10 Hand Painted Botanical Pierced Cabinet Plates
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This gorgeous set of 10 19th century cabinet plates features harlequin, multi-color grounds with botanical motifs. Each plate is uniquely painted with a different botanical specimen....
Category
19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain, Paste
A Fine Classical Royal Vienna Portrait Cabinet Plate
Located in New York, NY
Exquisite Royal Vienna portrait porcelain gilded cabinet plate featuring hand-painted portrait of a beautiful young Grecian woman with a basket of flowers. The turquoise border finis...
Category
19th Century Austrian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Meissen Figure in Hand-Painted Porcelain, Boy Playing Flute, 1774-1814
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Antique Meissen figure in hand-painted porcelain. Boy playing the flute. Marcolini period 1774-1814.
Measures: 20 x 9 cm.
In excellent condition.
Stamped.
Category
1770s German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$1,120 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of French Louis XVI Style Ormolu Mounted Chinese Export Porcelain Vases
Located in New York, NY
A monumental and quite important pair of antique French Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted Chinese export porcelain vases. This exceptional pair of Louis XVI style porcelain vases are be...
Category
Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Italian Porcelain Vases with Colorful Painted Floral Motifs, circa 1805
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of Italian porcelain vases from the early 19th century, with painted floral decor. Created in Italy during the first decade of t...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Copenhagen Blue Fluted Half Lace. Set of four coffee cups with saucers.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen Blue Fluted Half Lace.
A set of four coffee cups with saucers.
Model number: 1/719.
Dating: Approximately 1930 (2), 1956, and 1963.
In perfect condition.
Marked.
Fir...
Category
20th Century Danish Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$320 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Pair of Large Vintage 80s Rococo Regency Vases By Agostinelli Italy for Harrods
By Harrods, Porcellane D'arte Agostinelli
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
These exquisite vintage porcelain vases from the 1980s, crafted by Agostinelli, Italy and sold by Harrods, epitomize the luxurious Rococo Regency style. The vases are adorned in a st...
Category
1980s Italian Rococo Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Copenhagen Blue Flower Angular. Set of six coffee cups with saucers.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen Blue Flower Angular. A set of six coffee cups with saucers.
Model 072 (newer stamp for model 10/8608).
Saucer model 10/8608.
Dating: Approx. 1991-1995.
First factory...
Category
1990s Danish Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$320 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Royal Copenhagen Blue Flower. Open lace square bowl. Hand-painted.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen Blue Flower. Open lace square bowl in porcelain.
Hand-painted.
Model 10/1523.
Dating: 1966.
Marked.
Perfect condition.
Second factory quality.
Dimensions: D 22.5 cm ...
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$192 Sale Price
20% Off
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.