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Porcelain For Sale
Style: Victorian
Style: Art Nouveau
Minton Bone China Porcelain Botanical Specimen Plate of a Rose, Pattern #9762
By Minton
Located in Downingtown, PA
Minton Bone China porcelain botanical specimen plate of a rose,
Pattern #9762,
circa 1850
The fine Minton Bone China plate depicts a specimen of...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Tiffany & Co NY Joseph Hancock Royal Doulton Ptarmigan Painted Porcelain Plate
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare antique Royal Doulton hand painted decorative porcelain cabinet plate titled Ptarmigan and painted by Joseph Hancock and retailed by Tiffany & Co, New York and dating to the e...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Nouveau Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Persian Market Porcelain Platter Portrait Nasr al din Shah Qajar 20th C
By Gardner Porcelain Factory
Located in Melbourne, AU
A large platter, bearing commemorative portraits of Naser al din Shah Qajar, painted in cobalt and parcel gilt.
This beautiful portrait platter was purc...
Category
1950s Japanese Late Victorian Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Johann Haviland Bavaria, Germany, Five Large Decorative Plates in Porcelain
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Johann Haviland Bavaria, Germany. Five large decorative plates in hand painted porcelain. Flowers on a pink background and gold decoration, 1930s.
Me...
Category
1930s German Victorian Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Vienna Picture Plate 'Lohengrin' Painted by Franz Wagner, circa 1900
Located in Vienna, AT
Exquisite porcelain plate with elaborate painting
Wall with golden and violet edges with golden leaves, flag with a white background, divided by dark red medallions, framed with p...
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
1870, Victorian British Orientalist Porcelain Jug
By A.H. Davenport
Located in Catania, Sicilia
It's a large polychrome porcelain orientalist jug, signed B.T.F.C. on the bottom. Made in England in 1870.
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Doulton Figures 1st Ed. Hardcover Book 1979
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Royal Doulton Figures 1st Ed. 1st Printing, Hardcover Book 1978.
Royal Doulton Figures Produced at Berslem c1890 - 1978 Desmond Eyles & Richard Dennis.
Published by Royal Doulton T...
Category
Late 20th Century Victorian Porcelain
Materials
Paper
Wonderful Pair Large Staffordshire Porcelain Off White and Terracotta Spaniels
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Classic stately pair of Staffordshire porcelain spaniel dogs having black eyes and details with off white color and terracotta snout a...
Category
1950s English Victorian Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Minton Porcelain Plate, Sea Shells by W. Mussill, Victorian, 1891
By Minton
Located in London, GB
This is a rare and beautiful plate made by Minton in 1891 and painted by the famous porcelain artist Wenceslas (William) Mussill. The plate has an aquatic scene with sea shells in th...
Category
1890s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Art Nouveau Porcelain Amphoras
Located in CABA, AR
Introducing a captivating pair of antique Art Nouveau porcelain amphoras, a true testament to the elegance and charm of the early 20th century. C...
Category
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Materials
Bronze
Doulton Burslem Hyperion Sheep at Dusk Painted Porcelain Vase by Fred Walklate
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning and rare Doulton Burslem Hyperion-Ware porcelain hand-painted vase with Sheep at Dusk by Fred Walklate and dating from around 1902. This tall elegant and finely made vase ...
Category
Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Ernst Wahliss Turn Austrian Art Nouveau Twin Handled Portrait Vase
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning Art Nouveau Austrian twin handled porcelain lidded vase decorated with the portrait of a winged putti by renowned Austrian ceramicist Ernst Wahliss (Austrian, 1837-1900) a...
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chamberlain Worcester Porcelain Box and Cover, ‘Malvern’, c. 1840
Located in Gargrave, North Yorkshire
Chamberlain Worcester porcelain box and cover, c. 1840. The cover painted with a titled view of ‘Malvern’, of figures before the church, beneath the hills, within a gilt scroll frame...
Category
1840s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
White Parian Figures, L'Enfant Lisant et L'Enfant Écrivant, after Lemire 19thC
By Minton
Located in London, GB
On offer is a superb pair of white parian figures, probably English and made in Staffordshire in the late 19th Century. The figures are after a pair of bronze models created by Charl...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Porcelain Rothschild Pattern Birds Set of Cup And Saucer
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a hand painted Meissen porcelain cup and saucer. It is featuring the Rothschild pattern birds with some insects and butterflies. The cup as ...
Category
Early 20th Century German Art Nouveau Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Rockingham hand painted trio pattern 958
By Rockingham
Located in East Geelong, VIC
A very pretty Rockingham hand painted and gilded trio decorated with pattern 958. The shape is "Basket Weave", with a moulded basket weave pattern to the outside of the cups and to t...
Category
1830s English Early Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Worcester Pair Porcelain Down & Out Chinaman Menu Holder Figures
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A scarce and delightful pair Royal Worcester porcelain Chinaman figures made as part of a Down & Out series of figures produced as menu holders in 1874. The figures stand on a shaped...
Category
1870s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set of Five Antique Porcelain Dishes Hand-Painted, England, Circa 1830
Located in Katonah, NY
This set of five Coalport Porcelain dinner dishes was made in England circa 1830.
In the center of each one is a bouquet of exquisite hand-painted flowers.
The close-up images show...
Category
1830s English Early Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
EMIL ECKARDT - 'Mino' - Pirkenhammer Porcelain Cabinet Plate - E.U. - Circa 1900
Located in Chatham, ON
CHRISTIAN FREDERIK EMIL ECKARDT (Danish, 1832-1914) - 'Mino' ('Son of the Right Hand' - Ancient Hebrew) - PIRKENHAMMER PORCELAIN FACTORY (Fischer & Meig...
Category
Late 19th Century Danish Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
14-Karat Yellow Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Cameo Portrait Brooch Pendant
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique hand painted cameo portrait on porcelain of a woman long brown hair and bare shoulders covering her chest with a white cloth, set in a 14-ka...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Gold
19th Century George Jones Four-Part Majolica Porcelain Serving Bowl with Daisies
By George Jones
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English Victorian period brown, green and turquoise four-part Majolica porcelain serving bowl from the late 19th century stamped George Jones. Created in England during the 19th c...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Majolica, Porcelain
Rare Art Deco Royal Copenhagen Fish Dish Number 1139
Located in London, GB
A nice quality Royal Copenhagen tray with an Eel fish decoration.
This is painted in lovely subtle tones with exceptional moulding and made circa 1920. Marked on the base Royal Cope...
Category
Early 1900s Scandinavian Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Rococo Blanc de Chine Porcelain Figural Grouping of Colonial Musicians
Located in Big Flats, NY
Rococo Blanc de Chine porcelain figural group features musicians including seated Cello payer and violinist on scroll and foliate from base, crown stamp on base, circa 1880.
Measur...
Category
19th Century French Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Austrian Royal Vienna Angelica Kauffman Porcelain Hand Painted Cabinet Plate 19C
By Angelica Kauffmann
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An exceptionally fine quality early edwardian signed Austrian Royal Vienna cabinet deep dish plate of circular outline. Last quarter of the nineteenth century. Signed lower center KN...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain, Ceramic
Set of Five Aynsley Porcelain Painted Coffee Cups and Saucers, Signed N.Brunt
Located in London, GB
Set of five porcelain coffee cups and saucers, of Fruit Orchard pattern, decorated by Nancy Brunt (active 1935-1975) for Aynsley, England
Circa 1950's
Elegant small coffee cans a...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Victorian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chamberlain's Worcester Porcelain Botanical Basket with Sea Shell Border
Located in Downingtown, PA
Antique Chamberlain Worcester Porcelain Basket with Sea Shell Border,
circa 1835-40.
The Chamberlain porcelain fan basket with a white handle enhance...
Category
1830s Early Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Austrian Royal Vienna Angelica Kauffman Porcelain Hand Painted Cabinet Plate 19c
By Angelica Kauffmann
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An exceptionally fine quality early Edwardian signed Austrian Royal Vienna cabinet shallow dish plate of circular outline. Last quarter of the nineteenth century. Unsigned but firmly...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain, Ceramic
Belleek Cabaret Tea Set for Two, Cream Grass Pattern, Victorian 1863-1891
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful and very rare Belleek cabaret set in the Grass design, consisting of a teapot, two teacups and saucers, a milk jug and a lidded sugar bowl, all placed on a large tray. All items carry the 1st Black Mark, which was used between 1863 and 1891.
It is extremely rare to come across an entire cabaret set of these antique items, particularly when in such fabulous condition, so this is a rare opportunity!
If you ever thought Belleek fine china looks, sounds and feels unique, you are right. There is a back story to this extraordinarily fine Irish eggshell porcelain, which has an unusually high amount of "frit" and therefore is thinner and finer than any other china.
Pottery in Belleek (in the now Northern-Irish area of Fermanagh) had started in 1849 with John Caldwell Bloomfield, who was a wealthy land owner. During the Irish famine...
Category
Late 19th Century Northern Irish Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Figurine by Porcelanas Miguel Requena of to the Market
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING a lovely, retired piece, of Spanish porcelain of a Lady carrying a basket of flowers and called "To the Market".
Makers mark to the base, Porcelanas Miguel, Spanish.
Hard paste porcelain in the Lladro style.
The sculptor was Miguel Requena...
Category
20th Century Spanish High Victorian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Art Nouveau Bowl with Nymph and Girl, by P. Helmig, Meissen Germany, ca 1910
Located in Vienna, AT
Exquisite Meissen Art Nouveau porcelain group:
Flat oval bowl with an irregular, wavy lined and partially pierced rim, on the narrow sides two naked figures facing each other, a young girl and a young woman with long hair playing in the waist-deep, foaming water, the girl spreading...
Category
1910s German Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelaine De Paris Rare French Lamp in Black Polished Porcelain Hand Painted
Located in Prato, Tuscany
We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects.
Eleg...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Porcelain
Materials
Metal
Mintons, England, Antique Holland Lidded Tureen and Plate in Porcelain
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Mintons, England. Antique Holland lidded tureen and plate in hand-painted porcelain. Classicist decoration and gold edge. Late 19th century.
Lidded tureen measures: 30 x 19 x 16 cm....
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Vienna Splendour Picture Plate 'Adornation Of Venus', circa 1890
Located in Vienna, AT
Elaborately painted porcelain picture plate: plate rim with notches, gold rim on the outside, ruby red flag, gold and white framed light green ribbon with three large, gold framed re...
Category
1890s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Vienna Pair of Finely Painting and Gilded Covered Vases, circa 1860-1880
Located in Gainesville, FL
Royal Vienna pair of finely hand painted and background gilded covered vases. The vases are in neoclassical style, depicting the scenes from the legends of Orpheus and Eurydice. Each...
Category
19th Century Austrian Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Art Nouveau Tray with Wood Panel Covert with Glass and Landscape Decoration
Located in Verviers, BE
Antique tray with Art Nouveau wood panel with landscape decoration.
In very nice used condition, circa 1900.
Beautiful Art Nouveau wooden tableau framed by wood. Wooden Handles.
...
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Materials
Fruitwood
Antique Austrian Royal Vienna Mythological Porcelain Hand Painted Cabinet Plate
By Angelica Kauffmann
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An exceptionally fine quality early Edwardian Signed Austrian Royal Vienna cabinet deep dish plate of circular outline. Last quarter of the Ninete...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain, Ceramic
Capo Di Monte Armorial Porcelain Cabinet Plates, Set of 12
Located in Hixson, TN
An exquisite set of 12 Capo di Monte Armorial porcelain cabinet plates from the late 19th century.
Each is painted with a unique familial crest in the center with a gilt border, scr...
Category
1880s Italian Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Vienna Splendour Plate 'Roman Courting Scene With Cupid', circa 1890
Located in Vienna, AT
Elaborately painted porcelain picture plate: Gold rim on the outside, black flag with six large, gold-framed reserves, filled with gold-painted and impasto feather tendrils and en grisaille painted plant motifs, between the reserves six square medallions with gold-painted and impasto ribbons and en grisaille leaf motifs, golden groove with impasto leaf garland , mirror with a mythological scene: a gallant Roman couple...
Category
1890s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
3 Antique Victoria Austria Transferware China Renaissance Portrait Plates
Located in Dayton, OH
Set of three framed portrait plates portraying Renaissance styled women from Victoria Austria. These plates were made in the factory that was establis...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Art Nouveau Group 'Mother With Child', by Paul Helmig, Meissen Germany, ca 1912
Located in Vienna, AT
Very rare Meissen Art Nouveau porcelain group:
Mother in a dress decorated with elaborate Art Nouveau decor sitting on a fabric-covered stool and playing with her son, who is wearin...
Category
1910s German Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Worcester Attributed Figural Boy with Bundle of Wooden Twigs Spill Vase
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very finely made antique porcelain spill vase portraying a boy with an axe carrying a large bundle of twigs attributed to Royal Worceste...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century English Minton Majolica Oyster Plates
By Minton
Located in Pearland, TX
A lovely pair of antique English Minton white porcelain oyster plates. These fine quality oyster plates are a nice large size and have a beautiful shell design and gilt edge. Impress...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of English Wedgewood Figural & Foliage Silver Plate Biscuit Barrels, C 1870
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of English Wedgewood figural and foliage silver plate biscuit barrels with original folding handles and removable lids. 19th Century.
Category
1870s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Silver Plate
Grainger Worcester Floral Decorated Blush Ivory Porcelain Jug, 1894
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Unusual Grainger & Co Royal Worcester porcelain blush ivory jug decorated with floral designs and dated 1894. The jug stands on a rounded pedestal foot with wide rounded body with compressed down narrow neck and ornately molded slanting pouring spout and a scroll handle with floral terminals. The body of the jug is applied with fine metallic gilded stems with flowers on a blush ivory ground with gilded elements to the handle and around the rims. With printed Grainger Worcester...
Category
1890s English Late Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Large Rosenthal Lidded Jar in Blue Glazed Porcelain with Hand-Painted Fruits
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Large Rosenthal lidded jar in blue glazed porcelain with hand-painted fruits, butterflies and gold decoration.
1920s / 30s.
Measures: 31.5 x 20...
Category
1920s German Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
French Hand Painted Faience Set of Large Wash Bowl and Jug
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a rare set of a hand painted earthenware large wash bowl and jug. Their background are white adorned with gilt rims followed by wide royal blue and fine golden bands. The han...
Category
Early 20th Century French Victorian Porcelain
Materials
Earthenware
Minton Dessert Service with Butterflies and Flowers and Gold Rims
By Minton
Located in Pembroke, MA
Extraordinary porcelain dessert service attributed to Minton comprising 23 pieces with turquoise ground, hand painted butterflies, flowers and floral garlands. The perimeters and inside diameters of the plates are beaded and gilded. The service includes three tall compotes...
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Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Carlsbad Breakfast Porcelain Coffee Cup, 1910
Located in Praha, CZ
- in perfect original condition.
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Twelve Meissen Dessert Plates, Each with Museum Quality Paintings of Fruits
Located in Boston, MA
Magnificent set of twelve Meissen fruit or dessert plates with museum quality paintings of different fruits on each plate. If you scroll through the pict...
Category
1870s German Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Meissen Model of a Slipper
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th Century Meissen Model of a Slipper
Delve into the high Victorian era with this enchanting 19th century Meissen model of a slipper. Crafted by the illustrious Meissen Porcelain, this artifact embodies the elegance of its time with intricate designs and detailed hand painting. The porcelain slipper...
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Late 19th Century German High Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Imperial Royal Doulton Bone China Saucer with Floral and Gold Design, England
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A beautiful Royal Doulton bone china saucer. This item is the Salisbury pattern and has been discontinued. With a gold rim, accented with deli...
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1980s English Late Victorian Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Art Nouveau Villeroy and Boch Saxony Poppy Porcelain Egg Cups
Located in New York, NY
Set of four Jugendstil Saxony Poppy porcelain egg cups by Villeroy and Boch, Dresden,
Germany, dating between 1874- 1909. Beautiful stylized Art No...
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Late 19th Century German Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Art Nouveau Hentschel Child Looking at Picture-Book Model U 149
Located in Vienna, AT
Meissen stunning Hentschel figurine: Baby boy looking at a picture-book
Model U 149
Measures:
Height 4.33 inches (= 11.0 cm)
Depth 4.52 inches (= 11.5 cm)
Width 4.72 inches (= 12.0 cm)
Manufactory: Meissen
Hallmarked: Blue Meissen Sword Mark
model number U 149 / former's number 32 / painter's number 25
First quality
Dating: very early 20th century / made circa 1905-1910
Material: porcelain, glossy finish, multicolored painted
Technique: handmade porcelain
Style: Art Nouveau
Modelled by:
Julius Konrad Hentschel(Cologne 1872-Meissen 1907)
He studied at Academy of Arts at Munich and Dresden; since the year 1889 the sculptor has been active in Meissen manufactory as designer and modeller. - Hentschel designed the model U 149 in year 1904.
Detailed description:
Baby boy looking at a picture-book
-- the lovely baby boy having sat down on earth - he is clad in a bright and dark blue colored baby dress...
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Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique French Majolica Set of 3 Plates Platter Floral Pastel Green Pink Blue
Located in Tyler, TX
Gorgeous set of 3 antique French majolica plates (2) and platter (1)~~pastel floral design~~c. 1880s-90s
Authentic French majolica set...
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Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Boy and Dosser with Winegrapes by Theodore Eichler Model W 129
Located in Vienna, AT
Meissen rarest figurine: Boy with Dosser filled with Winegrapes by Theodore Eichler, circa 1910.
Size:
Height 28.0 cm (= 11.02 inches)
Diameter 9.2 cm (= 3.62 inches)
Manufac...
Category
1910s German Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Porcelain Strut Mantel Clock
Located in Norwich, GB
A Meissen porcelain oval shaped Strut clock with two putti and well modelled trailing flowers and wreath decoration. (The back of the case at 12 o’clock carrying the crossed swords m...
Category
1870s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Minton Porcelain Centre Piece, Mazarine Blue with Gilt, Sèvres Style, 1862-1870
By Minton
Located in London, GB
On offer is a sublime and very rare centre piece made by Minton between 1862 and 1870, which was the Victorian era. The centre piece is made in the Sèvres style and decorated in a mazarine or cobalt blue ground with rich and very fine gilding. The piece is probably made as a potpourri. This piece would make a fabulous display on your Easter, Thanksgiving or Christmas table!
Minton was one of the pioneers of English china production alongside other great potters such as Spode, Davenport, Ridgway, Coalport and others. They were located in Staffordshire and were known specifically for their wonderfully fine white bone china and bright colours; there is a colour called "Minton Blue" which is a fresh azure blue that was very fashionable during the Victorian era. Throughout the different phases of its existence, the factory made top quality creamware, porcelain, majolica and ultimately the finest parian porcelain. Minton excelled in their decorations and gilt work; these were often executed by artists who came from the Sèvres factory in France and brought their skills with them.
This large centre piece consists of three pieces: the base, the actual comport that can hold a liberal amount of food such as a large piece of game, and the cover. That being so, these pieces are more known for their decorative value and make a stunning display at the centre of a table setting.
This piece is not documented and no pictures are known of it other than one I have heard about in the grapevine but never seen myself: an image in a collection of images of the designs made by Minton for Thomas Goode, the famous retailer in London.
The relationship between Minton and Thomas Goode was a long and fruitful one. Goode, who was a close friend of Herbert Minton, commissioned a series of Victorian ornamental pieces in imitation of the late 18th Century Sèvres pieces that Goode had in his own collection. Minton did not just copy the Sèvres pieces, but created entirely new ones using the old 18th Century designs, hereby moving decidedly away from the English Rococo style, which had become increasingly strange and a little tired over the years. Minton, who had taken on Léon Arnoux, previously a painter at Sèvres, as Art Director. Arnoux was able to revive the design of ornamental wares in English soft paste porcelain...
Category
1860s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Antique German or Austrian Porcelain Female Figurines Harvesting Grapes
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This pair of antique porcelain figurines are marked on their respective bases, but the specific maker cannot be identified. It is presumed this pair of figurines was made in either G...
Category
Late 19th Century German Late 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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