Porcelain
1990s French French Provincial Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century German Art Deco Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century French Porcelain
Porcelain
1910s English Neoclassical Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1970s Vintage Porcelain
18th Century Chinese Antique Porcelain
Ceramic
1920s English Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 18th Century English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1810s French Empire Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1840s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1840s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1820s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Revival Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 2000s American Porcelain
Paper
1950s Hungarian Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Ming Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century French Porcelain
Porcelain
1780s English George III Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain, Stoneware
Late 18th Century French Neoclassical Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s Chinese Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Porcelain
Ceramic
Early 19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s German Country Porcelain
Porcelain
1770s Antique Porcelain
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Mid-20th Century English Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s German Country Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s German Black Forest Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century English Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Italian Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s German Anglo-Japanese Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1950s American American Classical Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 2000s Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
1920s Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
1820s British Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1810s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Porcelain
Ceramic, Paint
1770s English Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1870s French Rococo Antique Porcelain
Porcelain, Wood
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.