Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
NEOCLASSICAL STYLE
Neoclassical design emerged in Europe in the 1750s, as the Age of Enlightenment reached full flower. Neoclassical furniture took its cues from the styles of ancient Rome and Athens: symmetrical, ordered, dignified forms with such details as tapered and fluted chair and table legs, backrest finials and scrolled arms.
Over a period of some 20 years, first in France and later in Britain, neoclassical design — also known as Louis XVI, or Louis Seize — would supersede the lithe and curvaceous Rococo or Louis XV style.
The first half of the 18th century had seen a rebirth of interest in classical antiquity. The "Grand Tour" of Europe, codified as a part of the proper education of a patrician gentleman, included an extended visit to Rome. Some ventured further, to sketch the ruins of ancient Greece. These drawings and others — particularly those derived from the surprising and rich archaeological discoveries in the 1730s and ’40s at the sites of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum — caused great excitement among intellectuals and aesthetes alike.
Neoclassical furniture is meant to reflect both grace and power. The overall appearance of neoclassical chairs, tables and cabinetry is strong and rectilinear. These pieces are, in effect, classical architecture in miniature: chair and table legs are shaped like columns; cabinets are constructed with elements that mirror friezes and pediments.
Yet neoclassicism is enlivened by gilt and silver leaf, marquetry, and carved and applied ornamental motifs based on Greek and Roman sculpture: acanthus leaves, garlands, laurel wreaths, sheaves of arrow, medallions and chair splats are carved in the shapes of lyres and urns. Ormolu — or elaborate bronze gilding — was essential to French design in the 18th and 19th centuries as a cornerstone of the neoclassical and Empire styles.
As you can see from the furniture on these pages, there is a bit of whimsy in such stately pieces — a touch of lightness that will always keep neoclassicism fresh.
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Style: Neoclassical
Tragic Couple Antony and Cleopatra, Creamware, Ralph & Enoch Wood, circa 1780
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Cleopatra and Mark Antony, in enamelled creamware. After a model by Ralph and Enoch Wood, and quite likely made by this important partnership.
The figur...
Category
Late 18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Creamware
Winter, from the Four Seasons, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A personification of Winter, from The Four Seasons.
Unusually fine condition for a figure of this period.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
A Lion, passant gardant, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A lion, seated on its haunches, one paw up. Perhaps a heraldic reference; although the stump does not appear in heraldry, it is required in order to keep the paw in position during f...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 11 Porcelain Rosenthal Classic Rose Dessert Plates
Located in Mérida, YU
Set of 11 Porcelain Rosenthal Classic Rose Dessert Plate.
Perfect condition never used.
Very nice proportions and decoration. Also with a very nice texture, please see photos.
Category
1970s German Vintage Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Seal in the Form of a Lion, Chelsea, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A porcelain seal in for the form of a seated lion. With original gold mount, loop, and semi-precious stone: which has not been engraved.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Silver Leontine Watch Chain
Located in Madrid, ES
Leontina, late 19th century.
Leontine made up of six chains attached to a ring decorated with scrolls and small earrings, from which a series of objects and hooks for small items h...
Category
19th Century European Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Onyx, Porcelain, Gilt-Bronze and Cloisonnè Sevres Center, Neoclassical Style
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Onyx, porcelain, gilt bronze and cloisonnè Sevres center. Neoclassical Style. France late 19th century.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Onyx, Bronze
French Turn of the Century Neoclassical Style Sterling Silver Round Platter
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful French Turn-of-the-Century Neo Classical st. sterling silver round platter, from Maison Odiot, stamped PR - Maison ODIOT PRÉV...
Category
20th Century French Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
Set of 4 Late 19th Century Ormolu Ruby Glass Comport Dessert Stands
Located in London, GB
On three lines paw feet the dishes attach to the stands via a decorative threaded screw.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ormolu
Large Dish or tureen stand, Chelsea, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine tureen stand, typically painted with flowers and insects in the style of Meissen. A large and impressive piece.
Stilt marks and ground footrim.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Delft Charger, Coursing a Stag, English, circa 1710
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Tin glazed earthenware (Delftware) dish, in an unusual shape; elaborately and skillfully painted with a man coursing a stag. Probably London; perhaps Bristol. Probably the salver for a large ewer.
English Delftware is considered to be one of the most important forms of English ceramic production of the period, and it had a major influence on the development of the British ceramics...
Category
Early 18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Earthenware
George III Neo Classical Sugar Basket Made in London by Hester Bateman, 1779
Located in London, GB
A very fine George III Neo Classical Sugar Basket made in London in 1779 by Hester Bateman.
The Sugar Basket stands on a circular domed foot, with beaded edge, which is pierced with...
Category
18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Waste Bowl, Chelsea, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An unusual waste bowl (sometimes called a slop bowl) in soft-paste porcelain, decorated with typical Chelsea sprigs and bunches of flowers.
One of the most...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
$1,840 Sale Price
20% Off
Georgian Decanter Indian Club Shape, Bohemia, circa 1770
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An Indian Club shaped decanter, decorated with wheel-cut interlocking circles and spire finial. Very much in the English style.
Category
1770s German Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Cut Glass
Peacock Green Cut-Glass Decanter
Located in New York, NY
Peacock green cut-glass decanter
English, circa 1840.
Glass, blown and cut.
Measures: 13 1/2 in. high.
Condition: Perfect, except for minor flakes on the bottom of stopper.
Category
1840s English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass
Figure, Sportsman Toper, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Probably an early prototype, the largely open base showing an apparently unique structure described by Watney as ‘a favourite primitive buttressed by a strong overall cone-shape and further strengthened by a cut-out additional layer inside the base in the manner of pastry making.’ (Freeman Collection, Forward, 1982).
Toper is an old English word for a drunk.
Annulet Mark.
Prov: Taylor Coll, Albert Amor...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
$4,900 Sale Price
30% Off
Three-Part Silver Salt Shaker or Cellar, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Three-part silver salt Shaker, 19th century.
Salt Shaker made up of three bodies lowered at their edges so that they fit together and unite in a chamfered half oval at the top, deco...
Category
19th Century European Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Dessert Dish, Worcester, circa 1770
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A dessert dish, in the shape of a shell, and decorated in the Sevres manner.
Category
Late 18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Wedding Plate in cremware, Wedgwood C1786
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A creamware plate, with transfer printed decoration. From a service probably ordered to commemorate the wedding of John Peter and Ann Du Port, of Guernsey.
The plate is of plain cre...
Category
Late 18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Creamware
$1,040 Sale Price
20% Off
Magnum Decanter, England C1790 with Later Etched Masonic Decoration
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A magnum decanter, made plain in Georgian times. Later etched for brandy, and decorated with Masonic symbols, in imitation of early wheel-cut engraving...
Category
Late 18th Century British Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Blown Glass
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
Silver Wine Vase 'Bernegal', Vidal Hallmarks, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Bernegal, 18th century.
Silver, with hallmarks.
Weight: 55 g.
Spanish 18th century wine vase, with Vidal hallmark and wide and low bowl, slightly rounded to the base, following the typology of this glass in the Hispanic Baroque. The two vertical handles...
Category
18th Century Spanish Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
French Turn of the Century Neoclassical Style Sterling Silver Oval Plate
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful French Turn-of-the-Century Neo Classical st. sterling silver oval plate, from Maison Odiot, stamped PR - Maison ODIOT PRÉVOST & ...
Category
20th Century French Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sevres Style Centrepiece with Cupids
Located in Southall, GB
An extremely decorative and carefully crafted Sevres Style porcelain Centrepiece. A delicate pierced basket wreathed in roses sits atop a column encircled by cupids on a intricately ...
Category
Late 20th Century European Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
$4,958 Sale Price
20% Off
Elegant Pair of Early 19th Century Neoclassical Silver Candlesticks
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
An elegant pair of Austro-Hungarian neoclassical silver candlesticks. Each on circular foot, engraved with flower panels, slightly tapering stem...
Category
Early 19th Century Austrian Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Pair of "Old Paris" Vases with Garlands of Bisquit Flowers
Located in New York, NY
French, circa 1820.
Porcelain, painted and gilded, with applied bisquit flowers
8 13/16 in. high.
Inscribed (with incised mark, under the base of each): 3.
Category
1820s French Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Marble, Gilt-Bronze and Cloisonné Center, Neoclassical Style
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Marble, gilt bronze and cloisonné center, neoclassical style.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Early 19th Century George III Pair of Mahogany Knife Urns
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Early 19th Century George III pair of mahogany knife urns. Of square form with carved blind fretwork design. The domed and finialled tops lift to reveal fitt...
Category
Early 19th Century Irish Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Mahogany
Tankard with Printed Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1758
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Pint mug, in baluster form, decorated with early transfer prints of pheasants and two sheep. Transfer printing on bow porcelain is very rare.
Prov: Taylor Coll; Winifred Williams,...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
$2,940 Sale Price
30% Off
Creamware Portrait of Shakespeare, Wedgwood, circa 1785
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A style of portrait previously unknown, this extraordinarily deep bust of Shakespeare is in creamware, with a cold painted background.
William Sha...
Category
Late 18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Earthenware
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
Bust of Sir Isaac Newton, Pearlware, Ralph & Enoch Wood, circa 1790
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pearlware bust of Sir Isaac Newton, by Enoch Wood. The oak pedestal adds dignity to an attractive rendering of this great man of science. A handwrit...
Category
Late 18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pearlware
Plateau in the Restauration Taste with Grape and Leaf Motifs
Located in New York, NY
French.
Plateau in the Restauration taste with grape and leaf motifs, circa 1825.
Ormolu and patinated bronze, with mirror plate and wood backing.
Measures: 15 7/8 in. diameter, 3 11...
Category
1820s French Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Bronze
Fortune Teller Figure. Bow Porcelain C1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A young woman standing with the remains of a staff in her left hand, and in apparent apprehension as her future and fortune is being read by an exotic, enigmatic, bearded figure, app...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
$14,700 Sale Price
30% Off
Pair of George III Silver Wine Coasters
Located in London, GB
Pair of George III silver wine coasters with pierced and engraved neoclassical pierced and engraved decoration and fine beaded borders. This attractive pair has its original turned w...
Category
1780s English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
Coffee Can: Merian's Opossum, Nymphenburg, C1790
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A good example of the fine painting produced at this factory. This example with an African possum and a feline, after the engraving by George Buffons.
Category
Late 18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Teapot Stand, "Milkmaids" Pattern, Worcester, circa 1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Hexagonal teapot stand, with transfer print decoration of The Milkmaids.
From an engraving by Richard Hancock, one the best and most important of the en...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
A set of 3 cut crystal decanters, or available individually.
Located in New York, NY
Left to right from cover image: 8.5"H x 4"Diameter. ~ 13.25"H x 4.5"Diameter. Has an illegible signature on the bottom. ~ 10.75"H x 5"Diameter. Available individually for $850 each
Category
20th Century Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal
Saucer Dish, "Milkmaids" Pattern with Double Rebus, Worcester, circa 1757
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Transfer print decoration of The Milkmaids.
The engraving carries marks for three important people, and is very rare.
The double-anchor represent the Holdship brothers, Richard...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Large Tankard, Worcester, circa 1770, Later Decorated
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine, large 18th century tankard, redecorated in the 19th century with a scene of hare coursing.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
$2,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Commemorative Jug: George II. Worcester, circa 1759
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An unusual print, sometimes seen on mugs; exceptionally rare to find it on a jug. King George II died in 1760, and so any Worcester commemoratives of him are scarce. The print commem...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Circa 1880 Pair of German Sterling Silver Lidded Urns
Located in North Miami, FL
Pair of circa 1880 German Sterling Silver lidded urns, very heavy. An impressive pair of solid silver urns or vases that are decorated with detailed chased and applied elements including stylized leaves chased around the lower portion of the body. Each Vase has an applied wreath shaped cartouche on one side, one with the image of a woman and a man in period clothing...
Category
19th Century German Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
$17,560 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Dated Crowther Plate, Bow Porcelain Factory, 1770
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
The so-called ‘Crowther Plate’ dated January 1770:
Octagonal, painted in blue underglaze with the monogram ‘RC’ in a floral cartouche and with elaborate scroll, pendant and cell a...
Category
1770s English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Seal, I Still Hope, Derby Porcelain Works, circa 1760
By Derby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A delightul porcelain seal, depicting a young lady, seated on a mound. It is painted with the motto J'ESPRE ENCORE, or I Still Hope. No doubt this was intended as a gift, to be given...
Category
Late 18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Plate with Coiled Phoenix, Chelsea, C1754
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A very fine plate, damasked with Gotzkowsky erhaben Blumen. Decorated after the Japanese with peonies and a coiled phoenix to the centre, using the Kakiemo...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
$1,160 Sale Price
20% Off
Figure: Female Pedlar, Possibly Peg Woffington, Bow Porcelain, circa 1758
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
On a mound base decorated with painted floral sprigs. She wears a pale pink-mauve washed shift with iron-red sleeves and cloak, pale mauve and pink stomacher and a sprigged white shi...
Category
Late 18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
$10,500 Sale Price
30% Off
Silver Fish Slice and Fork by Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd.
Located in London, GB
These beautiful fish servers were created in the early 20th century by the prestigious Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd. Founded in 1880...
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Early 20th Century English Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
$1,322 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Navette, with Ladle, Wedgwood, C1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An extraordinary navette, or cream boat, in black basalt with encaustic decoration. Complete with matching ladle: a rare find indeed.
Category
Late 18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Stoneware
Sèvres-Style Porcelain Pedestal
Located in New Orleans, LA
This pedestal exhibits the style and grace of the famed Sèvres porcelain manufactory. Its lustrous deep blue porcelain base is Classic Sèvres in style, and it provides the perfect ba...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Bronze
Figure of The Vintner's Companion, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1748
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Moulded in a dense body in typical muses modeller style and with slightly drab glaze. She stands by a fruiting vinestock and carries an open basket of grapes in her right hand, her e...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
$4,690 Sale Price
30% Off
Figure: David Garrick and the Shoeshine Boy, Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fashionably dressed gentleman, almost certainly the actor David Garrick: he wears a white frockcoat, pink waistcoat and red breeches, all with embroide...
Category
Late 18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of French 19th Century Neoclassical Style Two-Tiered Presenters
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An extremely elegant pair of French 19th century neo-classical st. Porcelain de Paris and gilt, two tiered Presentoirs. Each is raised by a circular socle pedestal with a gilt band a...
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19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Figure of Pointing Boy by Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Presumably based on the work of the Flemish sculptor François Duquesnoy (1597-1643), also known as Il Fiammingo.
A small series of Chelsea figures from the late 1740s was also ba...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
$5,250 Sale Price
30% Off
Pair of Antique French Empire Porcelain and Ormolu-Mounted Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair of antique French Empire red porcelain and ormolu-mounted lamps, attributed to Sèvres. The porcelain bases of the lamps are decorated with ovals depicting bouquets of hand paint...
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19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of George III Neo Classical Wine Coasters by Robert Hennell, 1773
Located in London, GB
A very fine pair of George III Neo Classical Wine Coasters made in London in 1773 by Robert Hennell
The Wine Coasters are circular in form with a spreading base, which is decorated ...
Category
18th Century English Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
French 19th Century Empire Neoclassical Style Silvered Bronze Three-Tier Platea
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A very elegant French 19th century Empire Neo-Classical st. silvered bronze three tier plateau. The centerpiece is raised on three paw shaped feet. Each tier in graduating size has a...
Category
19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Bronze
Neoclassical serveware, ceramics, silver and glass for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Neoclassical serveware, ceramics, silver and glass 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 serveware, ceramics, silver and glass created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, decorative objects, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with ceramic, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Neoclassical serveware, ceramics, silver and glass made in a specific country, there are Europe, United Kingdom, and England pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, popular names associated with this style include Wedgwood, Bow Porcelain, Spode, and Meissen Porcelain. 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 serveware, ceramics, silver and glass differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $20 and tops out at $4,125,484 while the average work can sell for $1,502.