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Porcelain For Sale
Style: Mid-Century Modern
Style: Georgian
Vintage Capodimonte Ceramic Decorative Item by Mollica, Rococo Style, Italy
By Capodimonte
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1960s.
This group of 7 cherubs are made in Capodimonte lacquered ceramic by Mollica.
This item might show slight traces of use since it's vintage, but it can be consid...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Ceramic
Set of Six Charlotte Perriand Porcelain Dinnerware Plates by Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Hand-decorated porcelain dinnerware service, based on ancient influences filtered through the modern sensibilities of an extraordinary pioneer of modernity.
Designed by Cassina in collaboration with Ginori 1735...
Category
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Recipe Plate, Beautiful Soup, Made for Fleming Joffe
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Fleming Joffe Porcelain recipe plate,
Beautiful Soup,
1960s.
This rare Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate is from a series of fourteen made for the Fleming Joffe company in New York City. It depicts an improbable and amusing recipe with an image of a toad.
Diameter: 10 1/4 inches x 1 inch high.
The Fleming Joffe company was a small leather goods...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Jean-Jacques Prolongeau French Haviland Limoges Porcelain Figure
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Delightful French Limoges porcelain figure of a girl with a basket of fruit resting on her head by Jean-Jaques Prolongeau for Haviland and dating from the 1970's. The hollow figure is Scandinavian in style and is decorated in natural glazed white porcelain with molded decoration and facial and and hair detail. The figure carries a wide rounded bowl on her head laden with apples and pears. With printed Haviland Limoges marks...
Category
1970s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Yellow Majolica Oyster Plates Sarreguemines, Circa 1930
Located in Vienna, AT
Majolica oyster plates signed Sarreguemines, circa 1930.
Yellow mustard color.
great condition with no chips or nicks or colour loss.
Will sell as a set.
Category
1930s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Ceramic
Bjørn Wiinblad for Rosenthal, Eight "Herbst / Autumn" Porcelain Plates, 1970s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Bjørn Wiinblad for Rosenthal. Eight "Herbst / Autumn" porcelain plates decorated with branches and orange leaves. 1970s.
Diameter: 11 x 10.5 cm.
In excellent condition.
Stamped.
Category
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set of Six Espresso Cups and Saucers Designed by Lagardo Tackett for Schmid
Located in Ferndale, MI
Set of six demitasse espresso cups and saucers in white porcelain made in Japan circa 1960s. Designed by Lagardo Tackett and produced by Schmid...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Midcentury Stoneware Vase from 1950s
Located in Chorzów, PL
Mid-Century Modern stoneware vase
Made in Poland in 50/60 years. of the twentieth century.
Very good condition
Measures : Height: 32cm, diameter 11cm.
Category
1950s Polish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Stoneware
Limoges Porcelain Fish Set
By Limoges
Located in New Orleans, LA
A set of four vintage French 1960's Limoges porcelain fish plates with lovely and unusual shell scalloped and embossed borders and two alternating fish ...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set of Three Le Corbusier Unglazed Porcelain Tray by Cassina
By Le Corbusier, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Tray designed by Cassina in collaboration with Ginori 1735 and the Le Corbusier Foundation in 2020.
Manufactured by Cassina in Italy.
Cassina takes its...
Category
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Fish Decanter Soviet Drinking Set Porcelain Fish Carafe Shots Glass, 1950's
Located in Praha, CZ
Made in Russia
Made of Porcelain
shots glass:Height 8cm
:Depth 5cm
Width 3cm
Re-polished
Good Original condition.
Category
1950s Russian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Ceramic
18th Century Porcelain Trompe L'oeil Asparagus Tureen, Probably Thuringian
Located in Downingtown, PA
18th Century Porcelain Trompe-L'oeil Asparagus Spears Tureen,
Probably German porcelain probably Thuringian
Circa 1770-1800
The porcelain ...
Category
1770s Georgian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Lacquered Ceramic Decorative Clown Figure, Italy
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1950s.
This item is made in lacquered ceramic and might show slight traces of use since it's vintage, but it can be considered as in excellent original condition and r...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Ceramic
Fine Newhall Porcelain Plate Hand Painted Pattern 2050, Georgian circa 1820
By New Hall
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a beautiful desert plate by Newhall, dating to the turn of the early 19th century, Georgian period, circa 1820.
The piece is very well potted on a low foot and a moulded basket work border to the cavetto.
The plate is finely hand decorated over-glaze with hand painted pattern...
Category
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chamberlains Worcester Porcelain Dish, Nelson or Fine Old Japan pattern, ca 1805
Located in London, GB
This is a striking square serving dish made by Chamberlains in Worcester around 1805. The dish bears the Fine Old Japan pattern, often called the Nelson pattern.
Robert Chamberlai...
Category
Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Themes & Variations Porcelain Plate, # 27
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Porcelain Themes & Variations Plate, Motiv 27,
With Original Box,
1980s
The Piero Fornasetti Themes & Variation design is made on Rosenthal porcelain....
Category
1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
3 Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Table Lamps with Blue Conifer Cone by Fog & Mørup
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Three large table lamps with Blue Conifer Cone by Fog & Mørup For Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Company
The lamps are sold and priced individually. Discount available if sold as a grou...
Category
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
1960s La Fonda Del Sol Restaurant Salt Shakers Girard Midcentury
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Alexander Girard for Mayer China / Minners. Made in the 1960s. Bollard-form salt shakers. Identical each with single hole. No chips, no cracks. Some crazing to the white bands around...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Conchiglie Seashell Plate with Mollusks, #9
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Conchiglie Seashell Plate With Snails and Mollusks,
#9,
Circa 1960s-70s
The Fornasetti plate is decorated in the Conchigl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Mid-Century Romanze Porcelain Dinner Service by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine, near complete Mid-Century modern porcelain dinner service.
By Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal.
In the Romanze form and Medley pattern.
Consisting of:
10 Large Dinner Plates
...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Large Blue and White Kobalt Porcelain Vase by Schumann Arzberg Vintage Vase
Located in Bastogne, BE
Vintage blue and white porcelain vase
Large cobalt vase
Schumann Arzberg Germany
High, floor Vase Made of porcelain known manufactory Schumann...
Category
1990s German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Derby Late Georgian Floral Painted Bottle Shape Porcelain Vase
By Derby
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning and exceptional late Georgian floral painted porcelain bottle vase made by Derby and dating from around 1820. The large vase stands on a narrow round foot with slightly re...
Category
1820s English Georgian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Mid-Century German Cobalt and Gilt Decorated Porcelain Compote
Located in Germantown, MD
Mid-century German cobalt and gilt decorated porcelain compote.
Measures 13" in diameter and 4.5" tall. Great condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Gold, Gold Leaf
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Sezioni Di Frutta Desert Plate, No 12 for Tiffany
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Sezioni Di Frutta Dessert Plate,
No 12 for Tiffany,
Circa 1970
The tromp l"oeil porcelain plate depicts a section of fruit, a pear, on a white backgr...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Samson Worcester Style Porcelain Figural Seashell Sweetmeat Bowls/Dishes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine pair of antique figural porcelain sweetmeat dishes or footed bowls.
By Samson.
Each having the form of a white scallop shell set atop column of polychrome shells and gre...
Category
19th Century French Georgian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Mid-Century Rosenthal by Raymond Loewy Form 2000 Partial Dinner Set: 26 Pcs
By Rosenthal
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This partial dinner ware set was made by the well known Rosenthal factory of Germany in approximately 1970 in the period Mid-Century Modern style. The ...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Rectangular White Dish, Gerold Porcelain, Bavaria Porcelain Serving Dish
Located in Bastogne, BE
The rectangular serving dish Bavaria West Germany is made of high-quality porcelain with white glaze.
The product has a cute and delicate pattern in the form of a three-dimensional ornament. Such a plate will perfectly fit into the interior of your kitchen and will be a worthy addition to the festive and everyday table...
Category
20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Derby Porcelain Works Leaf Pattern Lidded Sucrier and Stand
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish English Georgian porcelain lidded twin handled sucrier and stand decorated in a leaf pattern by Derby Porcelain Works and dating from around 1820. The rounded shaped rectan...
Category
1820s English George III Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique English Caughley Porcelain Milk Pitcher or Jug
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique English porcelain milk pitcher or jug.
Comprising the pot, a conforming lid, and a later associated chain connecting the two.
With blue underglaze decoration of...
Category
Early 20th Century English Georgian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Villeroy & Boch Paired Porcelain Naif Christmas Collection Small Candlesticks
Located in Bastogne, BE
Vintage porcelain Villeroy & Boch Candlesticks.
Christmas Series by French artist Gerard Laplau.
Candlesticks look very exquisite. They will help to create a romantic atmospher...
Category
1980s Luxembourgish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Porcelain "Bulldogs with Puppies" by Fitz and Floyd Co., American
Located in Incline Village, NV
Charming pair of porcelain white seated Bulldogs holding a pair of puppies each from their mouth in a straw basket with a blue bow around their necks; mounted on a blue base. Conditi...
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Italian Midcentury Porcelain Greyhound Dog Sitting on Blue Cushion
Located in Atlanta, GA
A vintage Italian porcelain greyhound dog from the mid-20th century resting on a comfortable-looking blue cushion. Born in Italy during the midcent...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Gilbert Portanier Rosenthal Liguria Candlestick
By Rosenthal
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning post modern Rosenthal Studio-Linie porcelain candlestick designed and signed by acclaimed French artist Gilbert Portanier (b. 1926) decorated in abstract designs in the Liguria pattern and dating from around 1980. The conical shaped candlestick is of simple hollowed out form and of funnel shape with the raised narrow top forming the candle holder. The candlestick is decorated with abstract designs in lustre colors with gilding on a matt dark lilac blue ground and is signed within the design. With printed makers...
Category
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set of Karlskrona, Upsala Ekeby Serving Platters, Sylvia Pattern
Located in Riverdale, NY
Set of 8 Upsala Ekeby Serving Platters, Karlskrona Sylvia Pattern from the 1960's with autumnal leaf edge pattern which is a beautiful Karlskrona classic. Can be used as a dinner pla...
Category
1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chamberlain Worcester Porcelain Orange-Ground Botanical Campana-Form Vase
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chamberlain Worcester Porcelain orange-ground Botanical Campana-Form Vase,
circa 1840.
The Chamberlain Worcester Porcelain vase is of campana-form with an orange ground body over...
Category
Mid-19th Century Georgian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Fornasetti Porcelain Surrealist Themes & Variation Plate, #83
Located in Downingtown, PA
Fornasetti Porcelain Surrealist Themes & Variation Plate #83,
The Light Bulb,
Atelier Fornasetti
The Surreal Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts the...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Tema e Variazioni Porcelain Black and White Large Dish Charger
By Fornasetti
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
The Italian artist and illustrator Piero Fornasetti was one of the wittiest, most imaginative design talents of the 20th Century. He crafted an inimitable decorative style from a personal vocabulary of images that included birds, butterflies, hot-air balloons, architecture and, most frequently, an enigmatic woman’s face. Fornasetti used...
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain Figurine of Children, Gerold Porzellan, Germany, 1980s
Located in Chorzów, PL
Porcelain figurine of children
Signed Gerold Porzellan Bavaria
Very good condition
Measures: height: 17cm; diameter 8cm.
Category
1980s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Derby Porcelain Georgian Rare Hand Painted Dish
By Derby
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare and unusual Georgian Derby Porcelain dish finely hand painted colored enamels dating from around 1790. The oval shaped dish has a raised scalloped rim and is hand painted with...
Category
1790s English George III Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Georgian New Hall Porcelain Tea Bowl & Saucer Gold Pattern 142, Circa 1785
By New Hall
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very fine hard paste porcelain Tea Bowl and Saucer by New Hall, dating to the 18th century, George 111rd period, circa 1785.
Both pieces have 24 vertical flutes.
Both pie...
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Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coalport Trio Porcelain Hand Painted Gilded Bold Imari Pattern, circa 1815
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very good quality TRIO of Coffee Cup, Tea Cup and Saucer that we attribute to the Coalport porcelain works, Shropshire, England, made during the George 111rd years, circa 1815.
Both cups have the London or Grecian shape with all pieces beautifully boldly hand decorated in a very colourful Imari Chinoiserie pattern, popular at the time. All pieces are unmarked to the base.
The pattern is beautifully hand painted in bold colors of burnt orange, green and cobalt blue, all in different shades with an "Imari" style floral pattern, all enhanced with gilded detail to the pattern, upper rim and outer handle.
Both cups also have an inner rim border pattern.
We date this set to the late George third...
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Early 19th Century English George III Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
English Porcelain London Shape Imari Painted Jug
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A fine quality antique English porcelain, possibly Coalport, London shape sauce jug decorated in an Imari pattern and dating from around 1810. The sauce jug is lightly potted and is ...
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Early 19th Century English George III Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Paris Porcelain Coffee Can & Saucer Lemon Engrisaille, French Ca 1800
By Paris Studio
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very beautiful porcelain coffee can and saucer, made by a French Paris maker, dating to the very early 19th century, circa 1800.
The coffee can is carefully hand painted...
Category
Early 19th Century French Georgian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Georgian Derby Trio Tea & Coffee Cup & Saucer Pattern 569, Puce Mark Circa 1795
By Derby
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a good porcelain TRIO of a Tea Cup, Coffee Cup and saucer by the Derby factory, made during the George 111rd period, circa 1795.
The pieces are well potted in the Hamilton...
Category
Late 18th Century British George III Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain Figurine of a Woman with a Goose, Gerold Porzellan, Germany, 1980s
Located in Chorzów, PL
Porcelain figurine of a woman with a goose
Signed Gerold Porzellan Bavaria
Very good condition
Measures: Height: 21cm width: 9cm dept...
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1980s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain Vase, Chodziez, Poland, 1950s
Located in Chorzów, PL
A vase made of porcelite, decorated with a floral motif
Signed Chodziez. Made in Poland in the 1950s
Very good condition
Measures: Height 26cm, diameter 15cm.
Category
1950s Polish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
1950s Italian Vintage Red Light Blue Black White Porcelain Trinket Dishes/Trays
Located in New York, NY
Price is per item, rare set of six 1950s Italian Porcelain decorative dishes by a Ceramic Studio in Ravenna, each individually handcrafted in ...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Enamel
White Porcelain and Gold Centrepiece Footed Bowl by Ugo Zaccagnini
Located in New York, NY
White porcelain centrepiece bowl / compote with gold decoration by Ugo Zaccagnini. Italy, circa 1930. Signed.
Category
1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Gold
Lilo Fromm Decorative Plates Sophienthal Wall Plates “Autumn” series “Seasons”
Located in Bastogne, BE
Lilo Fromm decorative plates sophienthal wall plates “Autumn” series “Seasons”
Rare Decorative Plates “Autumn” from the Series of “Season”. S...
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1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set of Six 18th Century Flight Worcester Porcelain Tea Cups and Saucers
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A set of six antique Flight Worcester porcelain cups and saucers.
Each with a ribbed swirl design and cobalt blue and gold floral sprig and garland decoration.
Each base is mar...
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Late 18th Century Great Britain (UK) George III Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Year Plate by Eduardo Paolozzi for Rosenthal, 1978
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amazing bisque porcelain year plate, designed by Eduardo Paolozzi for Rosenthal, number 1620 from a limited series of 3000, complete with certificate and original box. Priced individ...
Category
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Swansea Welsh Pair Famille Rose Chinese Mandarin Pattern Porcelain Cups
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare and early pair Swansea, Welsh, hand painted porcelain breakfast cups hand painted in the Chinese famille rose style with the Mandarin pattern d...
Category
1810s Welsh George III Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Sulamith: Love Songs Sulamith Wulfing Vintage Wall Plates Bradex
Located in Bastogne, BE
A series of magnificent rare plates “Sulamith: Songs of Love”, by the wonderful artist Sulamith Wulfing, 1901 - 1989. In 1993-1994 They are listed in ...
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1990s German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain Figurine of a Sewing Woman, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark
Located in Chorzów, PL
Porcelain figurine of a sewing woman in regional costume.
Made in Denmark by the Royal Copenhagen manufactory
Manufactured in 1957.
Model number # 1314
Very good conditio...
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1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
C.J.Mason Porcelain Coffee Cup, Chinoiserie Birds Red and Gilt, ca 1830
By C.J. Mason 1
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful coffee cup and saucer made by C J Mason around 1830, which was the George IV era. The items are decorated with beautiful transfer printed birds and Chinoiserie de...
Category
1830s English George IV Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Rosenthal Andy Warhol "Golden Angels" Plate, New in Box
By Rosenthal, Andy Warhol
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
Rosenthal Studio-Line Andy Warhol Christmas Golden Angels plate. New in box.
Andy Warhol, quite possibly the greatest pop artist of our time, ...
Category
Early 2000s German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Paris Porcelain Coffee Can Vue De Notredame De Paris, French Ca 1795
By Paris Studio
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very beautiful porcelain coffee can with a hand painted scene of Notre-Dame Cathedral, made by Paris, France, dating to the late 18th century, circa 1795.
The coffee can is broadly cylindrical tapering slightly to the base, with a ring handle having an inner spur.
This is a very finely hand painted coffee can with a view of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, all in many different coloured enamels. The view even shows various figures in the foreground, all set in a rectangular thick gilded border, against a lovely lemon yellow ground. with further hand painted gold gilded rims and outer handle.
Overall a very distinctive, beautifully decorated coffee can.
NOTES
Notre-Dame de Paris, often simply referred to as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral and is the most famous of the Gothic cathedrals from the middle ages, situated on the Île de la Cité, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. The Roman Catholic cathedral, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture.
Notre-Dame was built on the ruins of two earlier churches, which were themselves predated by a Gallo-Roman temple dedicated to Jupiter. The cathedral was initiated by Maurice de Sully, bishop of Paris, who about 1160 conceived the idea of converting into a single building, on a larger scale, the ruins of the two earlier basilicas. The foundation stone was laid by Pope Alexander III in 1163, and the high altar...
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Late 18th Century French Georgian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Papillon White Porcelain Ashtray by Guido Andlovitz for Laveno
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, early 1950s.
They have been designed by Guido Andlovitz and produced by Laveno.
Each piece is stamped by the maker.
These are vintage pieces but they have never been used as they are a surplus of an old ceramic...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern 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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