Porcelain
1930s English Victorian Vintage Porcelain
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Mid-19th Century English Other Antique Porcelain
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Early 20th Century Porcelain
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Early 20th Century German Baroque Porcelain
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20th Century European Victorian Porcelain
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1850s English Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
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19th Century Unknown Antique Porcelain
Bronze
2010s German Modern Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
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2010s German Modern Porcelain
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20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
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1990s Portuguese American Classical Porcelain
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21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Post-Modern Porcelain
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1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain
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2010s German Organic Modern Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
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1830s English Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
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1920s Danish Vintage Porcelain
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1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain
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20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
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1920s Vintage Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century American Hollywood Regency Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
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1810s English Regency Antique Porcelain
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Early 20th Century French Art Deco Porcelain
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2010s German Modern Porcelain
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1750s French Louis XV Antique Porcelain
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Early 20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Porcelain
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1980s Japanese Showa Vintage Porcelain
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20th Century Italian Porcelain
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Porcelain
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Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century German Porcelain
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Early 20th Century German Art Nouveau Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
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Mid-19th Century German Baroque Antique Porcelain
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Early 20th Century English Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
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2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
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1930s Japanese Chinoiserie Vintage Porcelain
Enamel
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Ceramic
1770s Antique Porcelain
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1760s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
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1760s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
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1780s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
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Late 20th Century Danish Porcelain
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19th Century Antique Porcelain
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1790s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
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2010s French Art Deco Porcelain
Gold Plate
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1790s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
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19th Century German Antique Porcelain
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21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Porcelain
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1840s Russian Neoclassical Revival Antique Porcelain
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1840s Russian Antique Porcelain
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1930s German Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
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Late 19th Century German Renaissance 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.