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Porcelain For Sale
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Pair Early 19th Century Worcester English Porcelain Griffins
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Pair early 19th Century Worcester English porcelain griffins decorated with a simulated bronze effect, on a shaped flat base decorated with gilding, a gilt & candle sconce on it’s ba...
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Decorative Vienna Porcelain Tray
Located in New Orleans, LA
A wonderful large Vienna porcelain tray with a beautifully painted genre scene entitled "Die Ainkunftam Tanzboden" after Austrian genre painter Franz von Defregger...
Category
19th Century European Other Antique Porcelain
Materials
Giltwood
Sculpture 'Sleeping Boxer' Designed by Thure Öberg for Arabia, Finland, 1910
By Thure Öberg
Located in Stockholm, SE
Sculpture 'Sleeping Boxer' designed by Thure Öberg for Arabia,
Finland, 1910.
Porcelain.
Dimensions:
H: 10 cm
W: 14 cm
L: 36.5 cm.
Category
Early 20th Century Finnish Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Regency Large Coalport Porcelain Dessert Service-Thirty Nine Pieces
Located in Downingtown, PA
Regency-period Coalport Porcelain service is of the finest quality in terms of the porcelain itself and the decoration, each shape is particularly well designed with a distinctive shape.
The centre of each piece has a floral design based upon Chinese Export "famille rose" with pink and yellow flower swirls. The ground with a distinctive aqua blue.
The crimped rims have a wide border pattern alternating between a mazarine blue reverse flower-head design with a cracked ice gilt decoration and a diaper pattern on a yellow ground with flowerheads issuing forth.
The service consists of the following 39 pieces:
One Tazza (9 3/4 inches wide x 7 inches high)
Two circular sauce tureens and covers (7 inches high x 6 1/2 inches wide)
Four oval dishes (12 inches x 8 1/2 inches x 2 3/4 inches)
Four shell dishes (10 1/4 inches 9 1/2 inches)
Five rectangular dishes...
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Dr Wall First Period Worcester Sugar Box England Circa 1775
Located in Katonah, NY
This 18th-century First Period Worcester Porcelain sugar box was hand painted featuring beautiful swags painted with green leaves, purple berries, and two-tone blue and yellow apples...
Category
Late 18th Century English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Dr Wall First Period Worcester Sugar Box 18th Century Circa 1775
Located in Katonah, NY
This is a hand-painted First-Period Worcester Porcelain sugar box from the 18th century.
The lively floral design is painted in green, blue, purple, and gilt.
We see purple stems and...
Category
Late 18th Century George III Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Lotus Leaf-Shaped Dish
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Lotus Leaf Shaped Dish,
Circa 1765
The large Chinese Export “famille rose” porcelain saucer dish is made in the form of a lotus leaf with the rim and border...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Fornasetti Themes & Variation Porcelain Plate, Number 200
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Fornasetti Themes & Variation Porcelain Plate with Original White Box,
Number 200,
The Statue,
1990s
The Fornasetti porcelain plate is number 200 in the Themes & Variation series. ...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
English Porcelain Leaf Dish, Chelsea, circa 1760
Located in New York, NY
Finely painted with insects, butterflies and caterpillars. The border molded with leaf decoration. Red Chelsea anchor mark.
Category
1760s Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of French Porcelain Covered Sauce Tureens on Stands, Le Tallec, Dated 1984
Located in New York, NY
Finely painted with birds in cartouches, interspersed with gilt trellis motifs.
Category
1980s Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Derby Porcelain Arbor Musician Candelabrum
By Derby
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Porcelain Arbor Musician Candelabrum,
Derby Porcelain,
William Duesbury,
Circa 1765-70
The Derby porcelain arbor musician candelabrum are a pair. One is a male musician pla...
Category
1760s English Georgian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Decorative Ceramic Cat Bitossi Fiorato, Gold Flowers on Turquoise
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
A coveted collector’s item as early as the 1950s, Fornasetti cats surprise with the sophisticated decorations that colour their surroundings with sheer ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Ceramic
Set 12 Porcelain Plates Adamo Black/White/Gold
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
This set of twelve hand-decorated porcelain plates, as a whole, forms the figure of Adamo. You can use the ensemble for ornamental purposes ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre Vase
Located in Chipping Campden, GB
5392
Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre Porcelain Vase decorated in the “Candlemas” design by Daisy Makeig Jones
19cm high, 16cm wide
Circa 1920.
Category
1920s Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Immortal Figures Mounted on the Back of Animals
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Immortal Figures Mounted on the Back of Animals,
Circa 1780
The rare Chinese Export porcelain figures depict two immortals riding on the backs of a mythical...
Category
1770s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Famille Rose-Verte Plates Painted with A Flower Basket
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Famille Rose Plates Painted with Flower Baskets,
Yongzheng (1723-1735)
The pair of Chinese Export Yongzheng period "Rose-Verte" porcelain plates depict an o...
Category
1720s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Blue Guilloché Enamel and Gilt-Metal Casket
Located in London, GB
19th century blue guilloché enamel and gilt-metal casket
French, 19th Century
Height 11cm, width 15cm, depth 10cm
This exquisite piece highlights the expert designs emerging from ...
Category
19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Porcelain
Materials
Metal, Enamel
19th Century Meissen Porcelain Parrot
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th Century Meissen porcelain parrot with brightly coloured plumage naturalistically modelled and perched on a tree-stump applied with leaves and flowers.
In 1731 the Meissen manuf...
Category
19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain American Market Chocolate Pot and Cover
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Chocolate Pot and Cover,
American Market,
Circa 17 85-95
The Chinese Export porcelain chocolate pot and domed cover is painted to each side with an en grisa...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Italian Racehorse Champions Plates
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Italian Racehorse Champions Plates,
Great Italian Equestrian Champions,
"Grandi Campioni Italian Del Galoppo,
Circa 1950's.
The plates, numbered consecutively from ...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Berlin (KPM) Porcelain Plaque Of A Young Woman, In a Giltwood Frame
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Very Fine Berlin (KPM) Porcelain Plaque Of A Young Woman, In a Giltwood Frame.
The plaque has an impressed KPM sceptre mark to the reverse with impressed number 315_255 and a letter H. A paper label for the studio of 'Franz Xavier Thallmaier, Mucnich'.
This fine KPM plaque is superbly painted with a portrait bust of a young woman holding a music scroll and a laurel branch, possibly representing St. Cecilia. The plaque is set in a giltwood frame.
Franz Xaver Thallmaier (1890-1910) established in Munich in 1890 one of the most prominent and successful porcelain painting studios in Germany. He employed a number of talented porcelain painters specialising in portraits and genre scenes after artists such as Joseph Stieler, Wilhelm Kray...
Category
19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain, Giltwood
Chelsea Porcelain Oval Dish with Red Anchor C-1752-56 with Fruits and Insects
Located in Katonah, NY
This gorgeous Chelsea Porcelain botanical dish was hand painted in England circa 1752-1756.
The polychrome enamels depict fruits: apples, pears, plums, melons, and, in the center, a ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Deep Dish with "JA" Cypher
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Deep Dish with "JA" Cypher,
American Market,
Circa 1785
The Chinese Export porcelain dish is of an unusual shaped oval deep small basin. The rim has a gree...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Superior Toothpick Holder in White Porcelain by Matteo Thun for Memphis Milano C
Located in La Morra, Cuneo
Superior Toothpick holder in white porcelain by Matteo Thun for Memphis Milano collection
Additional Information:
Toothpick holder in decorated white porcelain.
Collection: Memp...
Category
2010s 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
Chinese Export Porcelain En Grisaille Mythical Plate with Venus, Cupid @ Adonis
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain En Grisaille Mythical Plate,
Venus, Cupid, Adonis and Minerva,
Circa 1745
The Chinese Export circular porcelain plate is painted en grisaille with a scene f...
Category
1740s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Large Armorial Dish, Arms of Hanmer impaling Jennens
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Large Armorial Dish, Arms of Hanmer impaling Jennens,
Circa 1745
The large circular Chinese Export Porcelain dish is centered with the armorial bearings of Hanmer wit...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Bacchus Mug After Derby Porcelain
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Bacchus Mug After Derby Porcelain,
Circa 1785.
The Chinese Export porcelain mug is modeled after a Derby porcelain original as the head of Bacchus, the face naturalistically & delicately enameled. The eyebrows, beard and hair picked out with lightly etched brown lines. Around his head is a garland of vine leaves enameled in green, the veins of the leaves well delineated in grey, the bunches of grapes in a rich purple. The "C" shaped handle is decorated with stylized vine leaves, the sides of the thick handle with gold lappets.
Dimensions: 4 inches high x 5 1/4 inches wide x 3 1/2 inches deep
Reference
This type of mug was copied directly from a Derby original that dates to around 1780-1785 and was created by William Duesbury II (1763-97) when the company was known as William Duesbury & Co.
For a similar mug, see Sargent: The Copeland Collection: Chinese & Japanese Ceramic Figures...
Category
1780s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Armorial Double Cypher Dinner Plate, Dutch Market
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Armorial Double Crest Marriage Dinner Plate,
Probably the Dutch Market,
Circa 1755-60
The attractive Chinese Export crested armorial marriage plate has a central design with shields, each with a different gilt cyphers, flanked by angels blowing horns with above a crown. The inner well with a gilt chain design and the border rim painted with four flower groupings.
This type of design was made to celebrate a wedding.
Dimensions: 9 inch diameter x 1 inch high
Reference: China For the West, David Howard and John Ayers, Volume Two, Page 398, #396, for a plate with shield...
Category
1750s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Sezioni Di Frutta Dessert Plate, No 4 for Tiffany
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Sezioni Di Frutta Dessert Plate,
No 4 in Series,
Made for Tiffany,
1960s
The tromp l"oeil porcelain plate depicts a section o...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set Six Marbleized Barr Flight Barr Worcester Neoclassical Dishes
Located in Katonah, NY
This is a set of six Barr Flight Barr Worcester dishes that were hand-painted in Worcester, England, around 1805.
Each dish has a diameter of 8.15 inches.
They're in very good condit...
Category
Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Large Porcelain ‘Water’ Ewer from the ‘Elements’ Series by Meissen
Located in London, GB
Large porcelain ‘Water’ ewer from the ‘Elements’ series by Meissen
German, 19th Century
Height 61cm, width 36cm, depth 23cm
With sensational design elements, this Meissen jug...
Category
19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Titicaca Vase by Matteo Thun for Memphis Collection
By Matteo Thun
Located in La Morra, Cuneo
Matteo Thun wagers on white for a series of objects in porcelain created for Memphis, turned and shaped by hand. The attention of the observer is caught not by the color but by the u...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Danubio Vase by Matteo Thun for Memphis Collection
By Matteo Thun
Located in La Morra, Cuneo
Matteo Thun – mindful of his family’s tradition of use of ceramic materials – wagers on white for a series of porcelain vases turned and shaped by hand, including Danubio (1983), mad...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Erie Toothpick Caddie by Matteo Thun for Memphis Collection
By Matteo Thun
Located in La Morra, Cuneo
The Erie toothpick caddy, placeable on Manitoba tray, "demonstrates the typically witty anti-functionalism of Memphis and epitomizes what Barbara Radice called emotional objects", wr...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Four Meissen Porcelain Plaques Depicting the Four Seasons
Located in London, GB
This delicately detailed set of four allegorical porcelain plaques portrays family scenes within the theme of the four seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.
Spring can be ide...
Category
Early 19th Century German Folk Art Antique Porcelain
Materials
Metal
Chinese Export Porcelain Pseudo Tobacco Leaf Shaped Dish with Puce Scroll
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Pseudo Tobacco Leaf Shaped Dish,
Circa 1765
The Chinese Export porcelain shaped dish. The leaf-shaped dish is in a rare ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set 12 Porcelain Plates Eva Black/White
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
This set of twelve hand-decorated porcelain plates, as a whole, forms the figure of Eva. You can use the ensemble for ornamental purposes or...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Dessert Set Coalport Porcelain Dishes Hand Painted 32 Pieces England Circa 1810
Located in Katonah, NY
This hand painted porcelain dessert service features the exquisite Blue Chrysanthemum pattern, combining deep blue with the allure of gold.
It's a fabulous combination!
The golden chrysanthemum leaves are richly gilded, creating a beautiful contrast against the deep blue background.
The 32-piece service consists of 21 dessert plates and all the serving shapes: a centerpiece and pairs of square-shaped dishes, shell-shaped dishes, oval-shaped dishes, and a fabulous pair of sauce tureens with their underplates.
Made by Coalport in England...
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Jean Girel, Large Yellow Ceramic Platter, France, 2021
By Jean Girel
Located in New York, NY
Unique, signed and dated.
The great diversity and originality of Girel’s work is the result of his wholly unique approach. His techniques are not found in any ceramics textbook, but...
Category
2010s French Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair French Gilded Porcelain Baskets 'Corbeilles' Made Mid-19th Century
Located in Katonah, NY
Originally this pair of elegant oval-shaped Paris porcelain pierced baskets (corbeilles) were used in a table setting to hold fruit.
Their timeless beauty will enhance any room.
Th...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Wedgwood Green Dip Tricolor Snake Handled Vase
By Wedgwood
Located in New Orleans, LA
Tricolor jasperware was one of Wedgwood’s most celebrated innovations, and this exquisitely rare vase is an extraordinary example of this wondrous ...
Category
19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Pair Blue and White 18th Century Dr. Wall Worcester Porcelain Saucers
Located in Katonah, NY
This lovely pair of blue and white First Period Worcester porcelain saucers is decorated in the elegant Dark Sprig Centre pattern.
First Period Worcester is also known as Dr. Wall Wo...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Regency Period Coalport Porcelain Chinoiserie Dish with Yellow Dragon & Lions
Located in Downingtown, PA
Coalport Porcelain Chinoiserie Dish with Yellow Dragon
Circa 1805-10
The Coalport porcelain shaped oval dish is painted in an Imari coloration with the center depicting a yellow dragon with green scales...
Category
Early 1800s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
John and William Ridgway Armorial Cabinet Plate Hand Painted England Circa 1850
Located in Katonah, NY
This cabinet plate is a remarkable piece of hand-painted bone china from the John Ridgway factory in England, dating back to around 1850. Its intricate design is a testament to the c...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Fornasetti Themes & Variations Plate #334, Atelier Fornasetti, The Quiet
Located in Downingtown, PA
Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation plate, #334,
The Quiet,
Atelier Fornasetti
With Original Box.
The Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts t...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Worcester Porcelain Bird Model
Located in London, GB
Royal Worcester porcelain bird model
English, c. 1950
Height 16cm, width 16cm, depth 9cm
The charming model of a jay manufactured by...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Qing Qianlong Famille Rose Medallion Porcelain Bowl
Located in New York, NY
This finely decorated Qing-period rose medallion or rose mandarin bowl is beautifully hand-painted with four vignettes depicting courtly scenes.
Category
1770s Chinese Qing Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Jean Girel, Covered Green Ceramic Dish with Frogs, France, 2021
By Jean Girel
Located in New York, NY
Unique, signed and dated.
The great diversity and originality of Girel’s work is the result of his wholly unique approach. His techniques are not found in any ceramics textbook, but...
Category
2010s French Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Michigan Salt Cellar in White Porcelain by Matteo Thun for Memphis Milano Collec
Located in La Morra, Cuneo
Michigan salt cellar in white porcelain by Matteo Thun for Memphis Milano collection
Additional information:
Salt cellar in decorated white porcelain.
Collection: Memphis Milano...
Category
2010s Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set of Five Royal Worcester Bird Models
Located in London, GB
Set of five Royal Worcester bird models
English, c. 1950
Largest: Height 9cm, width 8cm, depth 6cm
Smallest: Height 6cm, width 6cm, width 4cm
Designed...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set 12 Porcelain Plates Adamo Black/White
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
This set of twelve hand-decorated porcelain plates, as a whole, forms the figure of Adamo. You can use the ensemble for ornamental purposes ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
First Period Worcester Holly Berry Pattern Porcelain Tea Bowl and Saucer
Located in Downingtown, PA
First Period Worcester Porcelain Holly Berry Pattern Teacup and Saucer, Hop Trellis Pattern,
Circa 1775.
The First Period Worcester porcelain teacup and saucer has a reeded French shape and is richly decorated with the Holly Berry pattern- a variation of the Hop Trellis pattern. Panels of purple plants alternate with berried foliage between borders of lilac diaper and gold herringbone and a lower border of white pearls on a bright turquoise ground. There are gilt dentil rims and the inside of the cup has flowers and berried sprigs below a gold band.
Dimensions: Overall: 2 3/8 inches high x 5 1/4 inches wide; Saucer: 5 1/4 inch diameter x 1 inch high; Cup: 1 7/8 inches high x 4 inches wide x 3 3/8 inches deep. (overall 6.033 cm high x 13.34 cm wide)
Mark: Cup with a gold crescent.
Sometimes known as the Holly Berry pattern, this striking design is a member of the Hop Trellis family of Worcester patterns inspired by Sèvres. A similar teacup and saucer was in the Peter Merry...
Category
1770s English Georgian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Figures of a Jewish Porcelain Peddler and his Wife, Derby, England, Circa 1770
Located in New York, NY
Figures of a Jewish Peddler and his Wife, Derby, England, Circa 1770
This pair of Derby ware figures, dating from around 1760, represent an increasingly...
Category
1770s European Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Six Limoges Transfer-Printed Porcelain Cabinet Plates Designed by Salvador Dali
Located in Downingtown, PA
Set of Six Limoges Transfer-Printed Porcelain Cabinet Plates Designed by Salvador Dali,
''Le Conquete du Cosmos''
Limited Edition Number 1639/4000,
Dated 1974
The six plates, ...
Category
1970s Mission Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Robert Mapplethorpe Botanical Porcelain Plate, Flower, 1986
Located in Downingtown, PA
Robert Mapplethorpe Botanical Plate,
Flower, 1986
Made By Swid Powell
The Robert Mapplethorpe porcelain plate depicts in black and white a flower dated on the reverse 1987. It is lithographically printed porcelain based on Robert Mapplethorpe's photograph and made by Swid Powell.
Robert Michael Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images. He was concerned with Classical aspects of beauty, whether in his nudes, floral still life pictures, or self-portraits—light, shadow, composition, and form were central to all his work.
Dimensions: 12 inches diameter x 1 inch height
Reference: Annette Tapert, Swid Powell: Objects by Architects, New York, 1990, pp. 142-43
See: Examples from this series can be found in the MFAH, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Also see Yale University Art Gallery for an examples.
Robert Mapplethorpe was born on November 4, 1946, in Floral Park...
Category
1980s American Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Armorial Porcelain Plate, Arms of Stepney with Lloyd in Pretence
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Armorial Porcelain Plate,
Arms of Stepney with Lloyd in Pretence,
Circa 1745-50
Te armorial plate is painte...
Category
1740s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Porcelain 18th Century Leaf Dish Hand Painted, circa 1770
Located in Katonah, NY
This large 18th century Meissen porcelain leaf form dish incorporates the prevailing artistic trends of the time. Rococo art was known for its emphasis on asymmetry and naturalistic ...
Category
Late 18th Century German Rococo 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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