Porcelain
Late 20th Century German Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s English Vintage Porcelain
Ceramic
1940s English Japonisme Vintage Porcelain
Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 18th Century English Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Late 19th Century German Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s German Regency Revival Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Thai Porcelain
Porcelain
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s English Baroque Porcelain
Gold Plate
1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s Japanese Chinoiserie Vintage Porcelain
Enamel
1950s Hungarian Baroque Revival Vintage Porcelain
Gold
1830s English Early Victorian Antique Porcelain
Ironstone
1890s Italian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1910s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century American Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Post-Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
1920s German Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 18th Century Chinese Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Dutch Porcelain
Earthenware
1930s English Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century European Napoleon III Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s French Rococo Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 18th Century English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1980s English Anglo-Japanese Vintage Porcelain
Gold
1870s English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s German Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1800s English George III Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
18th Century Japanese Georgian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Gold
1980s Hungarian Chinoiserie Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Bronze
Early 20th Century Dutch Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s North American Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s North American Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s Hungarian Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1990s French Chinoiserie Porcelain
Porcelain, Paint
19th Century Asian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1990s Hungarian Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
1760s English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century American Renaissance Revival Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Early Victorian Antique 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.