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Porcelain For Sale
Item type: Antique and Vintage
Color: Brown
Nice Late 19th Century Vienna Style Porcelain Vase of Venus
Located in New York, NY
A nice late 19th century Vienna style porcelain vase of Venus
Depicting an oval picture of Venus in front, with raised gold floral and foliage designs surrounding the vase and two...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Belle Époque 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
Vasarely Three-Part Miniature Crockery on a Wooden Tray, 1976
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Vasarely
Three-part miniature crockery on a wooden tray
Artists: Victor Vasarely, Timo Sarpaneva, 1976
Manufacturer: Rosenthal, Selb
25th Anniversary Special Edition
White ename...
Category
1970s French Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Wood
Pair of Rosenthal Andy Warhol "Golden Angels" Latte Macchiato Cup Saucer, 1980
Located in Rijssen, NL
Rosenthal cup and saucer set of 2. Andy Warhol Collection-Studio Line, Golden Angels
Measures: Cup H 10.2 cm, Ø 6.8 cm saucer Ø 16 cm, H 2 ...
Category
1980s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Herend Hungary Porcelain Small Cache Pot Gold Trim, Claw Footed
By Herend
Located in Bochum, NRW
Herend Hungary hand painted porcelain, footed claw design small cachepot / vase in raspberry color "Chinese Bouquet" pattern, enhanced with gilt accent....
Category
Mid-20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Old Paris Porcelain Coffee and Tea Set, 40 Pieces, 19th Century, France
By Old Paris
Located in Delft, NL
Old Paris porcelain coffee and tea set, 40 pieces, 19th century
A white ribbed porcelain with gold paint service with a very large coffee pot, teapot, lidded sugar pot, a creamer and 18 cups and saucers
Coffeepot measures 29 high, 20 cm wide and the depth is 12 (1370 gram)
Teapot measures 21.5 high, 19 cm wide and the depth is 11 (808 gram)
Sugar pot measures 19 high, 11 cm diagonal (540 gram)
Creamer measures 21 high, 12 cm wide and the depth is 7.5 (460 gram)
Cups measures 10.5 high, 7 cm diagonal
And the saucers measures 3 cm high and 12.5 cm / 13.5 cm diagonal (264 gram per cups and saucers)
“Old Paris” porcelain, or as the French say, “Vieux Paris” porcelain, prefers not to a single Manufacturer, but to more than thirty porcelain sources, based around Paris, from late 18th century till, circa 1870.
This “Old Paris” French porcelain...
Category
19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Famille Noir Mille Fleur Assembled Service
Located in Austin, TX
A large assembled set of Chinese porcelain mille fleur wares. The set featuring a full tea service, as well as various plates, cups, and saucers. All piece...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Qing Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Hicks & Meigh Porcelain Dish, Cobalt Blue, Gilt, Flowers Patt.699 Regency Ca1820
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful square dessert dish made by Hicks & Meigh in about 1820. The dish has a deep cobalt blue ground, lavish gilding and panels with beautiful hand painted flowers.
...
Category
1820s British Regency Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Japanese Kutani Vases
Located in Wilson, NC
Pair of Japanese Kutani vases, the baluster form with multiple panels featuring flowers and birds.
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Dessert Service by Rosenthal Bjorn Wiinblad 24-Karat Plated, 1980
Located in Bronx, NY
Magic flute coffee dessert service by Rosenthal Bjorn Wiinblad 24-karat plated by Rosenthal Bjorn Wiinblad 24-karat plated, mint condition set for six with milk and sugar bowl on a 2...
Category
1980s German Baroque Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Unmarked Sevres Hand-Painted Porcelain Plaque, Hand Carved Frame
Located in Vero Beach, FL
A circa 1880 masterpiece of a young couple feeding doves. This is a superb example of a 19th century unmarked Sèvres hand painted porcelain plaque. Signed by the artist R. Deniau. Th...
Category
1870s French Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain, Wood
Karolina Porcelain Coffee Service, Poland, 1950s / 1960s
Located in Chorzów, PL
Porcelain coffee set, a rare design of the Karolina set from the mid-twentieth century.
The service includes a jug, milk jug, sugar bowl, 6 cups and 6 saucers. One saucer has more...
Category
1950s Polish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Derby Porcelain Figure of Female Ranelagh Dancer, Rococo 1759-1769
By Derby
Located in London, GB
This is a sublimely made porcelain figure of the female "Ranelagh Dancer", made by Derby between 1759 and 1769, which was the Rococo era. The figure would originally have had a male ...
Category
1760s English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Set of 8 Gilted Astrolabe Plates
Located in Paris, FR
Piero Fornasetti 1913-1988 lived and worked in Milano and he was very fond of science. This series normally is composed of 12 designs about astrolabe or "Astrolabos" in Greece which ...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 12 Minton Gold Rimmed Porcelain Ball Dinner Plates
By Minton
Located in Great Barrington, MA
One of Minton's most popular patterns is named "Porcelain Ball” which features a large diameter plate bordered by a gold and white floral decoratio...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Large Vienna Porcelain Charger, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A large and impressive, fine quality Vienna porcelain charger, having a hand-painted scene depicting Kaiser Karl V in Antwerp.
Vienna porcelain mark t...
Category
19th Century Austrian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Large 19th Century Vienna Porcelain Charger
Located in Brighton, Sussex
Entitled 'The banquet of Belsazar' a large fine quality Vienna porcelain charger, having a burgundy boarder with scrolling gilded decoration.
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Museal Early Asian Lidded Tureen With Présentoir, Meissen Germany 1740-1780
Located in Vienna, AT
Very exceptional, museal three-part object of the 18th century:
Lidded vessel on a six-sided base, widening towards the top and slightly domed at the bottom, on a stepped, low slopin...
Category
Mid-18th Century German Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain, Ceramic
Porcelain Group, "The noble rococo game of chess", German Manufacturer
Located in Berlin, DE
Large, decorative porcelain group, "The noble game of chess". German porcelain manufacturer.
Undamaged.
Category
20th Century German Rococo Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century Sevres, Ormolu-Mounted Vases
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality pair of 19th century French 'Sevres' porcelain vases, each having wonderful gilded ormolu mounts. The classical romantic and cherub scenes set in turquoise background.
Category
19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Materials
Ormolu
Art Deco 1930s French “Curacao” Figural Russian Soldier Flask by Robj Paris
By ROBJ
Located in London, GB
An Art Deco 1930s 'Coda Collection' anthropomorphic flask, container or decanter modelled as a Russian figure. This "Curacao" liqueur flask was manufa...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Cork
Royal Vienna with Bee Hive Mark Large Oval Charger, 19;Th C. Classical Scene
Located in Houston, TX
This is an exceptional and rare piece of Royal Vienna
Porcelain. The painting is amazing with great detail
Of historical and mythological figures. The mark is the
Bee hive mark wh...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Limoges, France, Large Antique Dish in Hand Painted Porcelain with Dancing Women
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Limoges, France. Large antique dish in hand painted porcelain decorated with dancing women and gold edge, early 20th century.
Measures: 33 x 5.5 cm...
Category
Early 20th Century French Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Painted Porcelain Plaque Depicting an Orientalist Beauty, Signed Vienna
Located in New York, NY
A very large and magnificent antique painted porcelain plaque depicting an orientalist beauty dressed in silk, jewelry, pearls, and 24-karat raised gold and enamel, signed Vienna. Th...
Category
Early 19th Century Austrian Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Enamel
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
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
Set of 14 Copeland Late Spode Aesthetic Movement Green Parrot Dessert Plates
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This wonderful set of 14 Copeland Late Spode dessert plates will surely add color and whimsy to your place settings. This pattern was originally in...
Category
Early 20th Century English Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century Sevres Porcelain Vases
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of 19th century 'Sevres' porcelain hand-painted classical vases, depicting romantic scenes to the panels, set in a dark blue background with gilded decoration and...
Category
19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Art Nouveau Figurine, Girl With Doll's Pram, by Konrad Hentschel, 1905
Located in Vienna, AT
Art Nouveau Meissen porcelain figure from the time the model was created:
The girl in a white dress and with a blue bow in her long hair bends over the wicker doll's pram and places ...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Fabulous Pair of Meissen Porcelain Glass Coolers/Cachepots
Located in New York, NY
A fabulous pair of Meissen Porcelain glass coolers/cachepots. This exceptional pair of exquisitely hand-painted Meissen Porcelain glass coolers are each painted with panels of figure...
Category
Mid-19th Century German Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain, Meissen
Viennese Imperial Porcelain Picture Plate Plate Château Predigtstuhl Vienna 1813
Located in Vienna, AT
Porcelain plate decorated with fine veduta painting: In the mirror an octagonal picture panel in front of a golden background with a border of
leafy vines painted in matt gold and f...
Category
1810s Austrian Classical Greek Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Viennese Imperial Porcelain Picture Plate Plate, Baden En Autriche, 1813
Located in Vienna, AT
Porcelain plate decorated with fine veduta painting: in the mirror octagonal picture panel against golden background, framed with matte gold painted festoons above and below the pict...
Category
1810s Austrian Classical Greek Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Massive Sevres Style Porcelain and Gilt Bronze Centrepiece
Located in London, GB
19th century sevres style centrepiece with impressive gilding all around it.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Early 19th C Copeland porcelain hand painted fruit and flower cabinet plate
Located in Central England, GB
This superb early 19th century porcelain cabinet plate is very finely hand painted with a rich central display of exotic fruit and foliage over a white ground boardered with a delica...
Category
1830s English William IV Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain Figure Of A Faun With Crocodile Rosenthal Selb Germany Circa 1924
Located in Vienna, AT
Admirable Art Nouveau Figurine by Rosenthal.
Faun terrified standing on a broken piece of ruins with Egyptian inscriptions, holding a pan flute in his right hand, at his feet a croco...
Category
1920s German Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
1950s Wedgwood Imari Pattern Dinner Plate
By Wedgwood
Located in Stamford, CT
1950s Wedgwood Imari pattern dinner plate. Stamped Wedgwood on the underside. Made for William H. Plummer & Co. in New York City.
Category
1950s English Regency Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Imposing Louis XVI Style Pair of Sèvres Style Vases
Located in Montreal, QC
These have huge decorative impact. Decorated with "scenes gallant" in the manner of Watteau on a Bleu Celeste ground, with gilt decoration and appllied w...
Category
1980s French Louis XVI Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Group 'Allegory Of The Volga' for Catherine II of Russia, Kaendler, 1850
Located in Vienna, AT
Very rare and excellent porcelain sculpture:
Kändler created this group in 1772, right at the beginning of the work on the large order, as a personification of one of the two great main
rivers of the vast Russian Empire, the natural waterways Volga and Dnieper, important for economy and traffic, which promised prosperity and wealth to the Empire:
The Volga in the form of a river god, seated sideways on heavily relieved fully sculptured rock covered with shells and coins as well as fern and reed plants, fully bearded and crowned with laurel, wrapped in floral patterned purple loincloth. He looks pensively to the side and rests his right arm on an overturned baluster vase, from which water flows together with shells and fish, on the wall of the vase the crowned, rocaille-framed Polish-Lithuanian royal coat of arms with the coat of arms of the Electorate of Saxony. At the same time he touches with his hand an oar with gold ornamentation and crossed red swords, in his left he holds a cornucopia with plastic flowers, ears of grain and coins, symbols of fertility and wealth.
The group is based on the front curved plinth with relief gold heightened meander and ribbon border.
The design of this group belongs to the models of the 'Great Russian Order...
Category
Mid-19th Century German Baroque 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
Pair of Japanese Imari Chragers
Located in Wilson, NC
Pair of Japanese Imari chargers, the outer border to the rim is a narrow crosshatch of blue and white lines; inner border is alternating cartouches with birds, flowers and bamboo in...
Category
1870s Japanese Antique Porcelain
Materials
Enamel
KPM Berlin porcelain plaque, after F. A. von Kaulbach, c. 1860.
Located in Gargrave, North Yorkshire
A fine K.P.M. Berlin porcelain plaque, after Friedrich August von Kaulbach, c. 1860. Beautifully painted, in Renaissance style, with a young girl, in an Italianate river landscape. S...
Category
1860s German Victorian Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain Dog Figurine, Rosenthal Porcelain by F. Diller, 1913-1927
By Rosenthal
Located in Delft, NL
Porcelain Dog Figurine, Rosenthal Porcelain by Fritz Diller, 1913-1927
Porcelain dog figurine made by Rosenthal Porcelain, Selb Bavaria
Numbered with # 2...
Category
Early 20th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Louis XVI Style Chinese-Export Ormolu Mounted Famille Rose Porcelain Vases
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine pair of Louis XVI style chinoiserie gilt-bronze mounted Chinese export famille rose porcelain vases. The ovoid hand painted porcelain body with dual scenes of a sword presenta...
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Materials
Ormolu
Midcentury Porcelain Vase with Poodle Dog, Hand Painted, Europe, 1960s
Located in 05-080 Hornowek, PL
A lovely Mid-Century Modern porcelain vase from the 1960s.
Original vintage good condition. Some effects shown on pictures.
Only one unique piece.
Category
Mid-20th Century Polish Porcelain
Materials
Glass, Ceramic, Porcelain
20th Century KPM Berlin Walking White Tiger Statuette, Antoine Louis Barye
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
20th century KPM Berlin / Walking white tiger statuette - Antoine Louis Barye
This listing is for a stunning statuette of a walking white tiger. Designed by Antoine Louis Barye and ...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Beautiful Late 19th Century Royal Vienna Porcelain Vase Depicting Apollo
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful late 19th century Royal Vienna porcelain vase and cover depicting Apollo
The greenish vase with painted with figures of Apollo surrounded by many of his followers, raise...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Belle Époque Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Pair French Bleu Celeste Sevres Urns 19th C
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful antique pair of French Sevres style porcelain and ormolu mounted twin handled urns, in the Louis XV manner, Circa 1870 in date.
The bleu celeste...
Category
1870s French Antique Porcelain
Materials
Ormolu
Austrian Art Nouveau Porcelain Pink and Gold Dish
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful Austrian Art Nouveau porcelain pink and gold oblong dish, circa early 20th century, Austria. Piece has hand painted design of flowers and leaves at center and on sides, f...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Large Pair of Berlin KPM Porcelain Campana Form Twin Handle Urns
Located in Gardena, CA
A large pair of campana form vases with twin handles and heavily gilt with hand painted floral vases on each side. Berlin mark to undersides
Additional Information:
Type: Urns
Di...
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Late 19th Century Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
19th C. Meissen 'Winey Wife' Caricature Bottle Stopper / Corkscrew with Case
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th C. Meissen 'Winey Wife' Caricature Bottle Stopper / Corkscrew with Case
Germany, Circa 1860s
An exceptional 19th-century Meissen 'Winey Wife' caricatu...
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Mid-19th Century German Antique Porcelain
Materials
Metal
David Leach Lowerdown Studio Pottery Celadon Glazed Bowl
By David Leach
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine Lowerdown Pottery celadon glazed porcelain bowl by renowned potter David Leach OBE (British, 1911-2005) and dating from around 1987.
David Leach, the son of the highl...
Category
1980s English Modern Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Signed Royal Vienna Porcelain Portrait Cabinet Plate with Platinum & Raised Gold
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine, signed Art Nouveau porcelain cabinet plate.
By Royal Vienna.
Signed Wagner to the lower right.
With a hand painted depiction of Ruth to the center surrounded by a blue & green border richly decorated with platinum, raised gold, & rich gilding.
Marked to the reverse with a blue underglaze Royal Vienna beehive...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century French Ormolu Sèvres Porcelain Centerpiece Bowl
Located in Winter Park, FL
A fine 19th Century French cast ormolu bronze mounted Sèvres porcelain centerpiece with double handles and raised on a footed base. Inset Neo-classical style hand-painted porcelain s...
Category
19th Century French Beaux Arts Antique Porcelain
Materials
Ormolu
19thc Royal Crown Derby Demitasse Service for Eight Chinoiserie Imari Pattern
Located in Savannah, GA
19th century Royal Crown Derby demitasse service, Imari pattern #198, in classical Japanese chinoiserie taste having a beautiful painted Imari palett...
Category
1880s English Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Sevres France Porcelain Large Decorative Urn, Late 19th Century
Located in Gardena, CA
Sevres France porcelain large decorative urn, Late 19th Century. The central band depicting various period era court scenes. Artist signed "C.Velly" to the center edge. A cobalt blue...
Category
19th Century Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Worcester pot pourri. Roses. F.Harper, c. 1919.
Located in Gargrave, North Yorkshire
Royal Worcester porcelain pot pourri and cover, F. Harper, dated 1919. The globular pot pourri moulded with scroll work, framing a pierced gallery, and having twin gilt scroll handle...
Category
1910s English Victorian Vintage Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Huge Minton Majolica Vase
By Minton
Located in Litchfield, CT
Circa 1870, by Minton, England. A gorgeous example of English porcelain, this monumental vase is a Victorian Aesthetic movement tour de force. Majolica by Minton is known for its del...
Category
19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coalport John Rose Pearlware Dessert Service, Orange with Silver Vines, ca 1800
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning and extremely rare dessert service made by John Rose at Coalport probably around the year 1800, shortly after Rose bought up the Caughley factory. It consists of a large centre piece comport, one sauce tureen with cover, two oval dishes, two square dishes, two shell dishes, and eight plates. The service is beautifully decorated in the Neoclassical style.
Coalport was one of the leading potters in 19th and 20th Century Staffordshire. They worked alongside other great potters such as Spode, Davenport and Minton, and came out with many innovative designs. When we say "Coalport" we usually think of the one Coalport factory that became famous, but in its beginning years there were two factories, one run by John Rose and the other by his brother Thomas Rose. Thomas Rose went into partnership with Robert Anstice and Robert Horton and they were located directly opposite John Rose, across the canal. John Rose had bought up the local Caughley factory in 1799. The brothers' factories had much in common with each other and they shared many different shapes and patterns. Ultimately, the John Rose factory proved more profitable and John Rose bought Thomas' factory in 1814, making it the one Coalport factory that became so famous. Many of the Coalport items, of either factory, are now collectors' items.
This service is made of pearlware, which leads us to believe that it might have been made at the old Caughley premises, which had kilns for pearlware - the later Coalport items are not known to be made of pearlware but the shape of the dishes and the sauce comport are clearly a Coalport shape.
All items have a beautiful deep orange ground - they were done in different firings as the colour is not entirely consistent, which makes the service very charming. The rims are set off with a beautiful vine pattern in silver, which makes the service even more rare as this was not done often.
The items are unmarked, as is usual for that era, except the odd "B", which is probably the gilder's tally mark.
CONDITION REPORT The service is in good usable condition with some minor flaws: there is some crazing and wear throughout, which is to be expected of pearlware of this era. The centre piece comport has a slight crack through the side, which is not very visible. One of the plates has a chip on the front of the rim as well as three lines coming off the rim; one has a chip on the underside of the rim; and one has a line coming off the rim. Neither of these stand out and the plates are entirely stable.
Antique British china...
Category
Early 1800s British Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Materials
Pearlware
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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