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Porcelain For Sale
Period: Mid-19th Century
Period: 1910s
12 Coalport for Tiffany 1899 Gold, Ivory and Cobalt Blue Dinner Plates
By Coalport for Tiffany
Located in Great Barrington, MA
A set of 12 rare Coalport, made for Tiffany and Co. dinner plates featuring six alternating reserves of two colors of cobalt blue enamel with profuse raised paste gold overlay. The p...
Category
1910s English Neoclassical Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Copeland Plate, Reticulated with Sublime Flowers by Greatbatch, 1848 (2)
By Copeland
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful plate made by Copeland in 1848. It is decorated with a sublimely painted flower arrangement by the artist Greatbatch.
We have two sets of 8 of these plates avai...
Category
1840s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Copeland Plate, Reticulated, Sublime Flowers by Greatbatch, 1848 (3)
By Copeland
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful plate made by Copeland in 1848. It is decorated with a sublimely painted flower arrangement by the artist Greatbatch.
We have two sets of 8 of these plates avai...
Category
1840s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Qing Dynasty Chinese Blue & White Porcelain / Ceramic Plate, c. 1850
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This Chinese ceramic plate is dominated by a blue-grey glaze and features wonderful hand painted blue strokes. Once used as an every day plate it is now a great example of Chinese ce...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Porcelain
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Set of Mid-19th Century Cobalt Blue and White Porcelain, China
Located in Sheffield, MA
Entertain in style with this 78 piece of elegant cobalt blue and white porcelain china made in England or France possibly in the 1840s or 1850s w...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique English "Mintons" Majolica Seafoam Green Radial Oyster Plate, Circa 1865
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English "Mintons" Majolica porcelain seafoam green and burnt umber radial oyster plate, circa 1860-1870.
Large 12 well format.
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Copeland dessert Plate, Reticulated, Sublime Flowers by Greatbatch, 1848 (1)
By Copeland
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful plate made by Copeland in 1848. It is decorated with a sublimely painted flower arrangement by the artist Greatbatch.
We have two sets of 8 of these plates avai...
Category
1840s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 8 Plates by Copeland, Reticulated, Sublime Flowers by Greatbatch, 1848
By Copeland
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning set of 8 reticulated plates made by Copeland in 1848. Each plate is decorated with a unique sublimely painted flower arrangement by the artist Greatbatch.
We hav...
Category
1840s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Qing Dynasty Chinese Blue & White Porcelain / Ceramic Plate, c. 1850
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This Chinese ceramic plate is dominated by a blue-grey glaze and features wonderful hand painted blue strokes. Once used as an every day plate it...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Porcelain
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Copeland Set of 8 plates, Reticulated, Sublime Flowers by Greatbatch, 1848
By Copeland
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning set of 8 reticulated plates made by Copeland in 1848. Each plate is decorated with a unique sublimely painted flower arrangement by the artist Greatbatch.
We hav...
Category
1840s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
A 20th C. Meissen Blanc de Chine Porcelain Figural Couple, Lady and Man
Located in New York, NY
A 20th Century Meissen Blanc de Chine Porcelain Figural Couple, Lady and Man. A finely dressed couple engages in flirtatious courtship in this ...
Category
1910s German Louis XVI Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain Figurine 'Temple Dedication' by Liebermann Rosenthal Selb Germany 1916
Located in Vienna, AT
Very rare Rosenthal figurine, only 200 versions in existence:
A scantily clad Art Nouveau beauty, a belt around her hips with a long, softly falling shawl draping around her legs, a ...
Category
1910s German Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
A Pair Of Sevres Porcelain Cobalt-Blue Ground Vases Adélaïde, 2eme Grandeur
Located in New York, NY
An Incredible and Quite Rare Pair Of Sevres Porcelain Cobalt-Blue Ground Vases Adélaïde, 2eme Grandeur; 1843-1849, green printed S.49 lozenge for 1849 to the underside of each socle,...
Category
1840s French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Minton Dessert Service, Inverted Shell White with Monochrome Flowers, ca 1830
By Minton
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning dessert service made by Minton probably around the year 1830, in their "second period". The service consists of a high footed centre piece, two square dishes, two ...
Category
1830s English Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Dresden Ambrosius Lamm Footed Cups and Dessert Plates Set of 10 Hand Painted
Located in Austin, TX
Amazing hand painted porcelain set of footed cups /saucers and matching dessert plates made by famous Ambrosius Lamm studio in Dresden.
Set includes 10 footed cups, 10 saucers and 10 dessert plates.
Beautiful porcelain pedestal cups and plates are 360 degree panoramic painted with romantic scenes and decorated with raised gold technique. Scenes present Rococo era people relaxing in beautiful landscapes, some engaged in courtship, some playing musical instruments. The inside of the scalloped rim plates feature beautiful gilt work including swags, garlands, crosshatch and a highly decorative monogram, all with raised gilt paste embellishment.
Cups are truly pieces of art.. Three of ten cups are gilt with raised gold decoration inside, other seven cups have colored luster inside with raised gold on the rim.
Matching saucers have beading, raised gold flowers decoration and a monogram in the middle.
Marked under the glaze blue with lamb mark for Ambrosius Lamm Studio, Dresden.
Condition - generally great condition with imperfections natural to its age and use.
Plates: 9 plates are in great/excellent condition, minor gilt wear natural to its age and use. Monograms have darker patina. One plate has a Y shape hairline on the back invisible on the face side, the same plate has a tiny chip on the rim visible with close up inspection (see the photo).
Cups: 6 cups are in excellent/great condition, minor gilt wear natural to its age and use. Four cups - green, pink and 2 whites have a tiny imperfections on the rim, one on each cup ( see the last photo, it combines 4 cups rims ). No hairlines, no breaks.. One white cup has dark patina on gold inside the cup.
Saucers: 9 saucers are in excellent/ great condition. One pink saucer...
Category
1910s German Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coalport Pair of Vases, Persian Revival Gilt with Puce Floral Reserves, ca 1845
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning and very rare pair of vases made by Coalport in around 1845. The vases have rich gilding in the Persian Revival style, combined with very English floral reserves o...
Category
1840s English Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Circa 1830 Chinese Export Porcelain Blue Canton Gravy Boat
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1830 Blue Canton gravy boat, Chinese export porcelain. Helmet form; loop handle. Light blue color. Interesting glaze & kiln flaws.
7" x 4.5" x 4" h.
Whitehall Antiques is a fa...
Category
1830s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Worcester porcelain pot pourri. Richard Sebright, d. 1913.
Located in Gargrave, North Yorkshire
Royal Worcester porcelain pot pourri and cover, painted by Richard Sebright, and dated 1913. Finely painted with a detailed study of fruit amongst blossom and leaves, within an elabo...
Category
1910s English Victorian Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Worcester vase. Storks, by George Johnson, d. 1919.
Located in Gargrave, North Yorkshire
Royal Worcester porcelain vase, Storks, painted by George Johnson, dated 1919. The cylindrical body, finely painted with a study of storks, at an oasis, in a continuous desert landsc...
Category
1910s English Victorian Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
An exquisite and rare early 19t C Spode cabinet cup and saucer circa 1830
Located in Central England, GB
An exquisite and rare early 19t C Spode cabinet cup and saucer.
This beautiful and richly decorated Spode cabinet cup and saucer were made at this high quality English porcelain fact...
Category
Mid-19th Century English William IV Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Coalport Porcelain Saucers, Beige & Flowers, By Joseph Birbeck, c. 1847
Located in Southampton, NY
Pair of Coalport Porcelain Saucers, Beige & Flowers, By Joseph Birbeck, c. 1847
Lovely gold painted on beige ground with a pink tulip on one and a purple flower on the other. Marked ...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Solitaire Tea Set, Beige, Pale Yellow and Flowers, ca 1833
Located in London, GB
A solitaire tea set consisting of a teapot with cover and a trio consisting of a teacup, a coffee cup and a saucer, in “rustic loop” shape, with beige ground with rich pale yellow an...
Category
1830s English Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
King Charles Cavalier porcelain box, sitting on the books, England 1850.
Located in Milan, IT
Rectangular box in painted porcelain, in the shape of stacked books. The base and lid are supported. Above the first book at the top, in the shape of a lid, there is a sitting dog, a...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Rose Medallion Plates
Located in Wilson, NC
Pair of Chinese rose medallion plates, the rim with stylized flowers in a light turquoise color , interior features alternating panels sep...
Category
1840s Chinese Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Capriccio Model Porcelain Sculpture by Ferdinand Liebermann for Rosenthal
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain, with polychrome glazes; figure of a boy riding an ibex on a tiered moulded round base. Underglaze green company signet Rosenthal Selb-Bavaria.
Biography
German sculptor F...
Category
1910s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Beautiful Antique Old Paris Porcelain - Porcelaine de Paris - Coffeeservice
Located in BAAMBRUGGE, NL
Beautiful antique Old Paris porcelain (Porcelaine de Paris) coffee service. Handpainted with bouquet of flowers and finished with gold decorations. T...
Category
1860s French French Provincial Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Potpourri Vase, Green, Double Cover, Landscape, Flowers, ca 1835
Located in London, GB
A potpourri vase with double cover, pale yellow/beige ground with apple green details, Rococo shape with fruit finial and scroll handles and foot; a flower reserve on one side and a ...
Category
1830s English Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Two Beautiful Antique Old Paris Porcelain (Porcelaine de Paris) Cornet Vases
Located in BAAMBRUGGE, NL
Two particularly beautiful antique French Old Paris porcelain vases. Richly decorated with gold and blue decorations and beautiful hand-painted flower bouquets in the center of each ...
Category
1860s French Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Set of 4 Plates, Pastel Colours, Birds and Flowers, ca 1857
Located in London, GB
A set of four pierced dessert plates, 3 in the “Staffordshire” shape, in harlequin pastel colours with gilt, three with named birds and one with a flower
Patterns 3/9414, 3/9772 and...
Category
1850s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bing & Grøndahl, rare anniversary plate in porcelain. Dated 1910
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Bing & Grøndahl, rare anniversary plate in porcelain.
"Journalistforeningen i København 1880-1910".
Dated 1910.
Marked.
In perfect condition.
First factory quality.
Dimensions: Diam...
Category
1910s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Rare Antique Royal Copenhagen Blue Flower Tureen in Empire Style
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Rare antique Royal Copenhagen blue flower tureen in Empire style,
circa 1850s.
Measures: 40 x 25 cm.
In good condition. 1st. factory q...
Category
Mid-19th Century Danish Empire Antique Porcelain
Meissen Porcelain, Love Series: Cupid Mailing a Love Letter with Love Bird C1870
Located in New York, NY
Meissen Porcelain, Love Series: Cupid Mailing a Love Letter with Love Bird C1870, SUPREME
A Meissen porcelain figure from the Love Series: Cupid Mailing a Love Letter with a Love Bi...
Category
1860s German Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Low Oval Comport Dish, Sage Green with Landscape, ca 1850
Located in London, GB
An oval low-footed comport with two handles and an octagonally scrolled shape, a moulded surface with pale yellow and white scrolling foliage on a sage green ground, and a stunning l...
Category
1850s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique 1850's Limoges Coffee Pot & Lidded Sugar Bowl Gold Squash Blossom
By Limoges
Located in New Orleans, LA
Incredibly scarce and wonderful John Vogt & Cie (pre- Tressemanes & Vogt) Limoges France tall coffee pot and matching large, lidded sugar bowl.
The coffee pot is 10" tall with squash...
Category
1850s French Napoleon III Antique Porcelain
Materials
Gold
Samuel Alcock Matched Solitaire Porcelain Tea Set, Pink with Flowers, ca 1836
Located in London, GB
A matched solitaire tea set consisting of a teapot with cover, a sucrier with cover, a milk jug and a matched trio consisting of a teacup, a coffee cup and a saucer. With pink ground...
Category
1830s English Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Large French Sevres Porcelain Casket 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a fabulous, larger than usual, antique French Sevres porcelain ormolu mounted casket, Circa 1860 in date.
The shaped hinged cover decorated with a hand painted courting cou...
Category
1860s French Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Porcelain Basket, Alma Border, Pink, Black, with Bird, ca 1855
Located in London, GB
A large basket with a Persian-inspired moulded Alma border in black on a bright pink ground, a moulded swan-head handle in white, gilt and pale green, pierced ends and a beautiful pa...
Category
1850s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Painted Porcelain Portrait of Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A painted porcelain portrait of Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, shown wearing full uniform and orders. English, circa 1910.
Footnote: Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, (30 September 1832 – 14 November 1914) was one of the most successful British military commanders of the 19th century. He served in the Indian rebellion, the Expedition to Abyssinia and the Second Anglo-Afghan War before leading British Forces to success in the Second Boer War. He also became the last Commander-in-Chief of the Forces before the post was abolished in 1904. Roberts was awarded the Victoria Cross...
Category
1910s English Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Vieux Paris Porcelain Set of 6 Plates, Mauve, Gilt and Sublime Fruits, ca 1865
By Old Paris
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning set of 6 plates made in Paris in about 1865. The plate have a soft mauve/purple rim with fine giltwork, and sublimely painted fruits in the centre.
There were man...
Category
1860s English Empire Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Copenhagen, set of six Art Nouveau plates with lilies and gold trim.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen, a set of six Art Nouveau plates hand-painted with lilies and gold trim. A rare pattern.
Model number: 72/10519.
Approximately from 1910.
In beautiful condition.
Fir...
Category
1910s Danish Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Copenhagen, five Art Nouveau plates with lilies and gold trim.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen, a set of five Art Nouveau plates hand-painted with lilies and gold trim. A rare pattern.
Model number: 72/10520.
Approximately from 1910.
In excellent condition, wi...
Category
1910s Danish Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Copenhagen, set of five Art Nouveau plates with lilies and gold trim.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen, a set of five Art Nouveau plates hand-painted with lilies and gold trim. A rare pattern.
Model number: 72/10519.
Approximately from 1910.
In beautiful condition.
Fi...
Category
1910s Danish Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Floral Polychromed Porcelain Sponge Bowl & Underplate C1850
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Floral Polychromed Porcelain Sponge Bowl & Underplate C1850
Measures- Plate: 9.25''H x 9.25''W x 1''D; Bowl: 7.5''H x 7.5''W x 1.5''D
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Art Nouveau Children Group 'Two Girls', by A. Koenig, Meissen Germany, ca 1940
Located in Vienna, AT
Very rare Meissen Art Nouveau porcelain figure group:
Two barefoot girls in summer clothes, the older one in a green-brown skirt and white long-sleeved shirt with blue stripes, her hair pinned up in two side bunches, the younger child in a red-purple dress sitting on the ground, holding her by the arm and pulling her up.
The model is part of a series of beach motifs by Alfred König.
Based on a white round base with a relief structure on the side and a gold rim.
Very lifelike and loving representation of the characters and the details
Designer:
ALFRED KÖNIG (1871 - 1940) studied at the art academy in Dresden, since 1897 he worked in the Meissen manufactory as a designer and modeler. The artist specialized in the design of human figures in various variations, such as genre figures, children, athletes, soldiers etc.
Model B 290...
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1910s German Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Snake Handle Vase With Soft Flower Painting, by Leuteritz, c 1865 H:48cm
Located in Vienna, AT
Very large double snake-handled vase in baluster form on a mounted funnel-shaped base, the handles raised at the sides in the form of coiled pairs of snakes, white ground, the front ...
Category
1860s German Baroque Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Large Meissen Pair Of Gardener Figurines, By Kaendler & Schoenheit, Ca 1860
Located in Vienna, AT
Gardener couple consisting of two individual figures.
The female gardener wears rural rococo clothing: a dress with elaborate floral decoration and pinne...
Category
Mid-19th Century German Baroque Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Art Nouveau Figure Group 'Ice-Scaters', by Alfred Koenig, Meissen Germany, 1910
Located in Vienna, AT
Delicate and rare Meissen Art Nouveau porcelain group:
Skating couple in elegant winter clothing: The lady in a long, white skirt with a green decorated hem, green jacket and white cap, and long ermine scarf, the gallant in a fine, sporty, brown checkered suit...
Category
1910s German Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Tearcup Trio, Maroon, Yellow, Gilt and Fine Landscapes, ca 1845
Located in London, GB
A true trio consisting of a teacup, a coffee cup and a saucer, “rustic bean” shape, in deep maroon and pale yellow ground, with gilt and finely painted landscape reserves
Pattern 95...
Category
1840s English Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
RARE 1840's Wedgwood "Tower Of London" In Orange Transfer Pearlware Tureen
By Wedgewood
Located in Atlanta, GA
Wedgwood (English, founded 1759), circa 1840.
Behold a truly exceptional piece of antique porcelain history: the Rare 1840's Wedgwood "Tower Of London" in Orange Transfer Pearlware ...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Materials
Pearlware
Pair Of 2-Storey Meissen Porcelain Centerpieces With Gardener Children, Ca. 1860
Located in Vienna, AT
Pair of delicate porcelain centrepieces on a high, round base with curved boss decoration, the shaft divided by bead-like extensions, above two tiers in the form of two differently s...
Category
1860s German Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Cream Jug, Pitcher, Eau de Nil with Jay and Landscape, 1854
Located in London, GB
A cream or water jug / pitcher with elegant scrolled moulding, an eau de nil ground colour with yellow and gilt leafy scrolls, with a jay on one face and a landscape on the other
Pattern unknown
Year: 1854
Size: 143m (5.1”) from handle to mouth, 14cm (5.75”) tall
Condition: a crack in the top of the handle with associated line in the body, some crazing but the jug is stable and good for use
The Samuel Alcock factory was operative in Staffordshire between 1822 and 1856, after which it was bought by Sir James Duke and Nephews. The factory started as a partnership between the young Samuel Alcock and the older Ralph Stevenson, who provided the factory and capital. Alcock quickly took the factory to great heights, building one of the biggest factories of its time. Alcock jumped on the new Rococo Revival fashion and served a huge new middle class market. The reason we now don't hear much about Samuel Alcock porcelain is that much of it has been mis-identified over the years and attributed to Coalport, Ridgway, Rockingham or others; Alcock did not mark any of his porcelain save a few rare pieces, and the numbering system is difficult to understand. However, the wares are still wide spread and many are of great quality.
This jug forms part of the Murray Pollinger Collection of Samuel Alcock Porcelain. Most of the collection is not publicly available yet, but if you would like to get access to the first 100 lots, please sign up for our mailing list...
Category
1850s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century French Gilt Old Paris Porcelain Teapot
Located in Pearland, TX
A superb antique 19th Century French Old Paris, also referred to as Vieux Paris, creamware porcelain lidded tea pot or coffee pot with gilt accents and a letter of provenance. It wou...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Copenhagen Christmas Plate from 1915
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen Christmas Plate from 1915.
Marked.
First factory quality.
In perfect condition.
Diameter: 17,8 cm.
Category
1910s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Porcelain Teapot, Blue, Gilt and Flowers, Rococo Revival ca 1837
Located in London, GB
A teapot with cover in the “rustic bean” shape, cobalt blue ground with gilt acanthus motif and finely painted flower posies on the belly of the teapot
Pattern 5782
Year: ca 1837
Si...
Category
1830s English Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Copenhagen Christmas Plate from 1912
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen Christmas Plate from 1912
Marked.
First factory quality.
In perfect condition.
Diameter: 17,8 cm.
Category
1910s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Copeland & Garrett Group of Spaniels, circa 1840
Located in Gargrave, North Yorkshire
Copeland and Garrett porcelain group, circa 1840. Charmingly observed, as a Spaniel seated, whilst one of her puppies suckles upon her, and her other puppy lies between her front leg...
Category
1840s English Early Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Copenhagen Christmas Plate from 1919.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen Christmas Plate from 1919.
Marked.
First factory quality.
In perfect condition.
Diameter: 17,8 cm.
Category
1910s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chinese Cup & Saucer, circa 1840
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique Chinese cup & saucer, circa 1840.
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese 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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