Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary American Organic Modern Porcelain
Leather, Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century French Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Porcelain
Porcelain
1790s English George III Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary German Black Forest Porcelain
Porcelain
1790s English George III Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Chinese Chinoiserie Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Porcelain
Porcelain
1960s French Vintage Porcelain
Ceramic
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
1820s Austrian Biedermeier Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary German Black Forest Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1880s English Victorian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Chinese Other Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century French Edwardian Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1900s European Classical Greek Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Porcelain
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2010s Chinese Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century Japanese Other Porcelain
Porcelain
1980s German Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century English George III Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Polish Porcelain
Glass
19th Century English Georgian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century German Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Porcelain
Porcelain, Glass
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century French Porcelain
Glass, Ceramic, Porcelain
Early 20th Century Victorian Porcelain
Porcelain
1920s German Louis XVI Vintage Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century German Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century Macanese Chinoiserie Porcelain
Porcelain, Paint
1770s Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
18th Century English George II Antique Porcelain
Porcelain, Creamware, Pottery
1820s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain
1880s French Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 17th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 1800s English Regency Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
1880s English Aesthetic Movement Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary German Black Forest Porcelain
Porcelain
1830s English Rococo Revival Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
Mid-18th Century English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Hungarian Victorian Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s American Minimalist Porcelain
Ceramic, Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Antique Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Porcelain
Porcelain
Early 20th Century American 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.