Modern Porcelain
MODERN STYLE
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.
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Style: Modern
Contemporary Oval Platter Gold Hand Painted Plate Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Hand painted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this oval rim platter, from the Scipione collection, is sprinkled on the rim with a light decor of golden dots and thin circles; all around the edge, a narrow, African red decor...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Set of 2 Dessert Plates Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Hand painted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Scipione dessert plate has the rim sprinkled with a light decor of golden dots and thin circles all around; all around the edge,...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Fornasetti Calender Plate 2010 porcelain n.43 Italy
By Fornasetti
Located in Long Island, NY
Fornasetti Calender Plate 2010 Porcelain n.43 . Made in Italy
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
NEW Versace Home Jungle Collection Tray
Located in Madrid, ES
NEW Versace Home
Jungle Collection Tray
Brand new tray in original Versace packaging and certificate of authenticity
Bring epic Italian glamour to yo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Set of 2 Soup Coupe Plates Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Hand painted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Dafne soup coupe plate has a narrow pink and blue dotted rim surrounding a broad, delicate golden decor of stylised flowers; sub...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Set of 2 Coralla's Mugs Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, Coralla's mugs are of her own design and a symbol of her work. This Michelangelo Coralla's mug is material and earthy, and like the gr...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Set of 2 Soup Plates Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Hand painted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Michelangelo Green Soup Coupe plate is material and earthy, like the great Renaissance Master's work. ...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Modern Easter Porcelain Dish with Rabbit Figure Sofina Boutique Kitzbuehel
Located in Kitzbühel, Tirol
Charming completely handmade porcelain dish with a hands-free painted rabitt in a traditional Easter decor. The rabbit is painted in black and white decor...
Category
2010s German Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Set of 2 Dessert Plates Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, these blue seabed dessert coupe plates have corals lying on a bright bottom surrounded by mysterious multicolored gems floating amid b...
Category
2010s European Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Salad Bowl Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this blue marble Craquelé Edge salad bowl has an original golden crackled rim emphasizing the blue yellow and green decor...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Coralla's Mug Red Gold Hand Made Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Hand painted in Italy from the finest porcelain, Coralla's mugs are of her own design and a symbol of her work. This one, from the Scipione collection, is enameled on the outside wit...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Meissen Large Pair of Allegory Figurines Day & Night by Silvia Kloede, Ca 2007
Located in Vienna, AT
A pair of large, excellently crafted allegories - Day & Night in the form of two slender female figures celebrating femininity:
The figure representing the Day dressed in fresh, spr...
Category
Early 2000s German Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Fornasetti Calender Plate 2009 Porcelain n. 42 Italy
By Fornasetti
Located in Long Island, NY
Fornasetti Calender Plate 2009 . Porcelain n.42 ,Made in Italy .
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Charger Plate Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Blue Marble charger plate has an original golden crackled rim emphasizing the blue yellow and green decor...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1990
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1990 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. When Rosenthal asked the Danish artist to illustrate a new series of dishes, he decid...
Category
1990s German Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Original porcelain tea bowl series Lightscape by Nymphenburg and Ruth Gurvich
Located in München, Bavaria
This is an artist original by Ruth Gurvich. The porcelain tea bowl is handcrafted by Nymphenburg Porcelain. The series Lightscape is a bisquit porcelain with watercolor paper texture...
Category
2010s German Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Set of 2 Dessert Plates Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Apollo Bianco plate leads us into a magic world. Shades of blue lapis lazuli evoke the magic of oriental novellas. A fairytale is...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Ashtray and Inkwell Set "Vista Alegre" Series "Feathers"
By Vista Alegre
Located in Madrid, ES
Ashtray and Inkwell Set "Vista Alegre" Series "Feathers"
porcelain luxury hand made and hight quality manufacture
19cm x 15 ashtray
15cm x 9cm x 6cm Inkwell
condition like NEW
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Set of 2 Coffee Cups and Saucer Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this coffee cup and saucer from the Berry Collection has a warm, berry-like enamel decoration painted in dots, drips and strokes that ...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Set of 2 Soup Plates Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Apollo Bianco plate leads us into a magic world. Shades of blue lapis lazuli evoke the magic of oriental novellas. A fairytale is...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Oval Platter 36x24 Gold Hand Painted Plate Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Hand painted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this oval rim platter, from the Scipione collection, is sprinkled on the rim with a light decor of golden dots and thin circles; all around the edge, a narrow, African red decor...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Set of 2 Dinner Plates Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Hand painted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Scipione dinner plate has the rim sprinkled with a light decor of golden dots and thin circles all around; all around the edge, a narrow, African red rim, punctuated with golden dots; at the center very delicate splotches of pink and light blue with sprinkles of golden dots.
Set of 2 dinner rim plates, measures: Ø27cm - 10.6in
Villa Borghese, Scipione collection
Hand painted porcelain
Hand painted 24-karat gold
Made in Italy
First introduced at Milan Design Week 2018, the Scipione line is named after a hall of the Borghese Gallery in Rome and evokes ancient Roman military...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Set of 2 Coralla's Mugs Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, Coralla's mugs are of her own design and a symbol of her work. Outside, this Apollo Bianco Coralla's Mug has a deep blue décor enriche...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Charger Plate Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Hand painted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Dafne Rim Charger has a narrow pink and blue dotted rim surrounding a broad, delicate golden decor of stylized flowers; subtle l...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Set of 2 Fruit Bowls Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Blue Marble Fruit Bowl is decorated outside with a blue yellow and green décor crowned by a...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Set of 2 Fruit Bowls Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Hand painted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Dafne Fruit Bowl has a narrow pink and blue dotted rim surrounding a broad, delicate golden decor of stylized flowers, the cente...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bumps 2.0 Blue Cobalt Vase by Arkadiusz Szwed
Located in Geneve, CH
Bumps 2.0 blue cobalt vase by Arkadiusz Szwed
Dimensions: L 16 x W 16 x H 20 cm
Materials: Porcelain
Arkadiusz Szwed designs and produce ceramic...
Category
2010s Polish Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Oval Platter Gold Hand Painted Plate Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Hand painted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Dafne large oval rim platter has a narrow pink and blue dotted rim surrounding a broad, delicate golden decor of stylized flower...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Set of 2 Dinner Plates Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Apollo Bianco plate leads us into a magic world. Shades of blue lapis lazuli evoke the magic of oriental novellas. A fairytale is...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Set of 2 Dinner Plates Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Tableware
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this Blue Marble Dinner Plate has an original golden crackled rim emphasizing the elegant white with its blue yellow and green decor...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Set of 2 Dessert Plates Gold Hand Painted Porcelain
Located in Roma, RM
Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, theses white Craquelé edge dessert coupe plate from the Chestnut collection have an original golden craquelé rim emphasizing the brill...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1989
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1989 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. The dish is titled “O Little Town of Bethlehem” and is reason no. 7 of the series. Wh...
Category
1980s German Vintage Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Candlestick Figurine 'Lighter - Florian' by Silvia Kloede, 1996
Located in Vienna, AT
A slender young, strong man standing by a rock, his light gray breeches and fiery red bodice tapering at the back like a lambent flame, decorated with fine, intricate floral motifs a...
Category
1990s German Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 2 Orange and Green Floral Plates by WL Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 orange and green floral plates by WL Ceramics
Materials: Porcelain
Dimensions: H5 x Ø30 cm
Also Available: Different options.
In a...
Category
2010s Chinese Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Orange and Green Floral Plate by Wl Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Orange and green floral plate by WL CERAMICS
Materials: Porcelain
Dimensions: H5 x Ø30 cm
Also available: different options.
In addition to...
Category
2010s Chinese Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1983
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1983 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. The dish is titled “Silent night”. When Rosenthal asked the Danish artist to illustra...
Category
1980s German Vintage Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1977
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1977 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. When Rosenthal asked the Danish artist to illustrate a new series of dishes, he decid...
Category
1970s German Vintage Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1984
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1984 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. The dish is titled “Jingle Bells” and is reason no. 2 of the series. When Rosenthal a...
Category
1980s German Vintage Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1987
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1987 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. The dish is titled “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” and is r...
Category
1980s German Vintage Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1991
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1991 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. The dish is titled “Oh Sheperds, men and women come...” and is reason no. 9 of the se...
Category
1990s German Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1994
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1994 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. The dish is titled “Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming”. When Rosenthal asked the Danish art...
Category
1990s German Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1986
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1986 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. The dish is titled “O Christmas Tree” and is reason no. 4 of the series. When Rosenth...
Category
1980s German Vintage Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Historical Porcelain Vases from the Italian Nicasio Collection
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Pair of Historical Porcelain Vases from the Italian Nicasio Collection.
Pair of splendid porcelain vases from the limited edition of the 3000 from the well-known Nicasio Catanese ...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Porcelain
Materials
Gold
Christmas Songs Plate by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal from 1980
Located in Milan, Italy
Porcelain Christmas plate from 1980 by Bjorn Wiinblad made by the German manufacturer Rosenthal. When Rosenthal asked the Danish artist to illustrate a new series of dishes, he decid...
Category
1980s German Vintage Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
3 Piece Place Setting Coffee Cup, Saucer, Plate Hutschenreuther Blue Onion
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A beautiful setting of three china porcelain Hutschenreuther blue onion pieces, made in Germany, in the 1960s. All items are in very good co...
Category
1960s German Vintage Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Six Mugs by Keith Haring for Konitz
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Six mugs by Keith Haring for Konitz
'Stacking Men'
Made in Germany
1990s.
Category
Late 20th Century German Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Timo Sarpaneva for Rosenthal, Rare Salt / Pepper Set in Porcelain
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Timo Sarpaneva for Rosenthal.
Rare salt / pepper set in porcelain decorated with water lilies. 1970s / 80s.
Measures: 8 x 6.5 cm.
In excellent condition.
Stamped.
Category
1970s German Vintage Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Arzberg, Germany, Chromatics Coffee Set with Mug and Two Plates
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Arzberg, Germany, Chromatics coffee set with a mug and two plates in shades of purple and pink.
Late 20th century.
Mug measures H 7.5 cm. x D 10.5 cm. including handle
Largest pl...
Category
Late 20th Century German Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Gary Wornell Studio Pottery Crackle Glaze Porcelain Lidded Pot, circa 1980
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very finely made vintage Studio Pottery lidded porcelain box designed and made by Gary Wornell in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. The rounded box has a domed cover ...
Category
1980s British Vintage Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Italian Porcelain Arthichoke Bowl, 1970s
Located in Munich, DE
Extra-large Purple Porcelain Artichoke terrine with lid.
This piece is directly from Mancioli, Italy.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Maharam Pattern Porcelain Bowl by Scholten & Baijings
Located in New York, NY
Pattern Porcelain Bowl by Scholten & Baijings
002 Petal
Porcelain with Grid textile graphic. Matte exterior with gloss interior. Made in Japan by 1616 / arita japan.
Dishwash...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Oval Rim Platter White Enamel Golden Edge Hand Painted Porcelain Made in Italy
Located in Roma, RM
Michelangelo Bianco is an elegant tableware ideally suited for formal occasions and intimate events. Plates are decorated with a light beige enamel at the center. They feature a new,...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Hermès Porcelain Plate "Cocarde de soie"
By Hermès
Located in Schöfflisdorf, CH
Hermès porcelain plate "Cocarde de soie".
Category
1980s French Vintage Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Studio Job for Makkum Pottery Textural Relief White Matt Porcelain Plate
Located in North Miami, FL
This amazing limited edition porcelain textural relief plate is a piece of art and sculpture with coded messages of things, objects and symbols all ...
Category
Early 2000s Dutch Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Tapio Wirkkala for Rosenthal, Three Porcelain Noire Mocha Cups with Saucers
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Tapio Wirkkala for Rosenthal. Three porcelain noire mocha cups with saucers in black and white fluted porcelain, 1980's.
The cup measures: 6.3 x 5.2 c...
Category
1980s German Vintage Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Maharam Pattern Porcelain Cup by Scholten & Baijings
Located in New York, NY
Pattern Porcelain Cup by Scholten & Baijings
001 Matcha
Porcelain with Grid textile graphic. Matte exterior with gloss interior. Made in japan by 1616 / arita Japan. Dishwasher s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Modern Porcelain Serving Bowl made by Piet Stockmans signed and dated 1991
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
Modern porcelain bowl by the Belgian ceramist Piet Stockmans. The bowl is partly unglazed porcelain, with a blue, lavender-like colour, characteristic o...
Category
1990s Belgian Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
20th Century Haviland & Parlon Limoges Porcelain 15 Pieces Coffee Set, 1986
Located in Cagliari, IT
A beautiful coffee service in the finest Limoges porcelain, "Assuan" decoration. Although the decoration is no longer in production, it continues to amaze with its timeliness. It inc...
Category
1980s French Vintage Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Modern porcelain for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Modern porcelain for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage porcelain created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, decorative objects and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with ceramic, porcelain and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Modern porcelain made in a specific country, there are Europe, Asia, and East Asia pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original porcelain, popular names associated with this style include 1616 / Arita Japan, Maharam, Scholten & Baijings, and Fornasetti. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for porcelain differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $19 and tops out at $4,750 while the average work can sell for $383.