Porcelain
Late 19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Gold
1890s British Aesthetic Movement Antique Porcelain
Gold, Enamel
1920s English Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Porcelain
Gold
1970s Danish Vintage Porcelain
Gold, Enamel
20th Century German Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s German Art Deco Porcelain
Gold Leaf
1940s English Vintage Porcelain
Gold
1970s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Gold Plate
Late 20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Gold
Late 20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Gold
1910s English Vintage Porcelain
Enamel, Gold
Mid-20th Century Italian Porcelain
Gold
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Porcelain
Gold
Early 20th Century English Greco Roman Porcelain
Gold Leaf
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Porcelain
Bronze, Enamel
Late 19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
1920s German Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Gold Leaf
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Russian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Gold
Mid-20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Portuguese Regency Porcelain
Gold
Early 20th Century Italian Porcelain
Gold
1940s German Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Gold
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Gold
19th Century Antique Porcelain
Gold
Mid-20th Century Italian Classical Roman Porcelain
Gold
Late 20th Century Japanese Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Gold, Gold Leaf
2010s Italian Porcelain
Gold, Enamel
20th Century European Rococo Porcelain
Gold Leaf
Mid-20th Century German Biedermeier Porcelain
Gold Plate
1960s German Vintage Porcelain
Gold
19th Century French Antique Porcelain
Bronze
Mid-20th Century German Empire Porcelain
Enamel, Gold Leaf
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Porcelain
Gold
20th Century English Victorian Porcelain
Metal, Gold
2010s Italian Porcelain
Gold, Enamel
1780s French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Bronze
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Porcelain
Gold
Mid-20th Century Art Nouveau Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
Gold, Enamel
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Porcelain
Enamel, Gold Leaf
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Gold, Enamel
20th Century English Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
Gold, Enamel
Late 19th Century French Aesthetic Movement Antique Porcelain
Gold
2010s Italian Porcelain
Gold, Enamel
20th Century English Baroque Revival Porcelain
Gold
1890s Japanese Antique Porcelain
Bronze
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Modern 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.