Porcelain
1930s German Vintage Porcelain
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
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1930s German Vintage Porcelain
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1830s English Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century German Porcelain
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1960s German Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain
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1930s Danish Vintage Porcelain
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1840s Antique Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Post-Modern Porcelain
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1930s Danish Vintage Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century English Neoclassical Porcelain
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1850s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
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Mid-19th Century German Rococo Antique Porcelain
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Mid-19th Century German Rococo Antique Porcelain
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1960s Danish Vintage Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain
1840s French Louis Philippe Antique Porcelain
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1930s Danish Vintage Porcelain
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Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Porcelain
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1950s English Regency Vintage Porcelain
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Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Porcelain
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1930s Danish Vintage Porcelain
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Porcelain
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
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Mid-19th Century German Rococo Antique Porcelain
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1960s German Other Vintage Porcelain
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1930s Danish Vintage Porcelain
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1960s German Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain
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1930s Danish Vintage Porcelain
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1930s Danish Vintage Porcelain
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1930s German Vintage Porcelain
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1940s Danish Vintage Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century Irish Victorian Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century Italian Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century English Victorian Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century German Art Deco Porcelain
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1840s German Louis Philippe Antique Porcelain
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1930s Danish Vintage Porcelain
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Mid-19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s Danish Vintage Porcelain
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Mid-19th Century German Baroque Antique Porcelain
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1930s Danish Vintage Porcelain
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Mid-19th Century German Baroque Antique Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century English Porcelain
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1930s Danish Vintage Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century Hungarian Modern Porcelain
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1930s German Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century English Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century Irish Victorian Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Space Age Porcelain
Ceramic
1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Metal
1950s English Vintage Porcelain
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1960s Danish Vintage 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.