Porcelain
1970s French Vintage Porcelain
Wood
Mid-20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Porcelain
1980s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Chinese Qing Porcelain
Porcelain
1980s German Baroque Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s Polish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s Italian Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century English Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century English Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century German Rococo Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century French Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain, Cork
1910s English Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1920s German Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Ormolu
1950s English Regency Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1910s English Victorian Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1980s English Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century French Art Nouveau Porcelain
Alabaster
Late 20th Century German Baroque Porcelain
Porcelain
1920s Chinese Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1980s French Louis XVI Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century French Art Deco Porcelain
Porcelain
1920s German Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Polish Porcelain
Glass, Ceramic, Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century German Post-Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Porcelain
Gold Plate
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century German Neoclassical Revival Porcelain
Porcelain
1920s German Vintage Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain
20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Japanese Meiji Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Polish Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain, Glass
Early 20th Century English Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Japanese Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Danish Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century German Rococo Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century French French Provincial Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century English Edwardian Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Japanese Showa Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s German Other Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1980s French Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1930s French Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s Japanese Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century American Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s European Empire Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1970s American Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Chinese 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.