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Material: Porcelain
Wood-Fired Waspnest Bowl
By MONDAYS
Located in Brooklyn, NY
One-of-a-kind sculptural porcelain bowl with undulating rim. Warm golds and brown flashing. Built by hand from coils and slabs, then wood-fired in a traditional Anagama/Noborigama k...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Bell System Telephone Double Sided Flange Porcelain Sign
Located in San Mateo, CA
Flange mount double sided Bell public telephone porcelain sign. The porcelain has good color. There are some losses around the edges and in the sign.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Industrial Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Steel
Early 20th Century Chinese Hand Painted Rose Medallion Temple Vase
Located in Pomona, CA
This magnificent Chinese Rose Medallion Tall vases also know as "Export Porcelain" vase. It was hand made and hand painted at about 1910 - 1920 with gilt foo dog handles and dragons to neck and shoulder. The vase body is decorated with hand painted courtly figures, floral and exotic birds. This large temple vase...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$2,450 Sale Price
30% Off
Pair Yellow Porcelain Dragon Table Lamps
Located in Houston, TX
Pair carved porcelain gourd lamps with white shades. Intricately incised porcelain detailed with bold multi colored auspicious dragons, clouds and greek key over a bold yellow backgr...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$6,400 / set
Royal Copenhagen Blue Flower Angular, Ten Coffee Cups with Saucers, Ten Plates
Located in København, Copenhagen
Royal Copenhagen blue flower angular.
Ten coffee cups with saucers and ten plates. Model number 10 / 8608 and 10 / 8553.
The cup measures: 9 x 5.8 cm.
S...
Category
20th Century Danish Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Rarity 17C small Chinese Porcelain ‘Hatcher Cargo’ blue and white Box Christies
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Size doesn't matter
Visible in the pictures is a very nice small box from the Hatcher Cargo.
Mid 17th century
Painted with chrysanthemum to the domed cover.
Provenance: This litt...
Category
17th Century Ming Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
1950s Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Aperitivo Set
Located in Aci Castello, IT
A set of five vintage aperitivo bowls by Fornasetti. These bowls feature intricate black and white illustrations with gold accents, especially on the rims and bases. Each bowl is ado...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Empire Style Porcelain Dinner Set for 12 Persons by Richard Ginori
Located in Vilnius, LT
The porcelain set for 12 persons is decorated with cobalt blue/gold decor handmade by Italian porcelain factory Richard Ginori.
Marked: Richard Ginori, Manifattura Di Doccia Florence...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Scandinavian Flush Mount Ceiling Light, 1950s
Located in Oslo, NO
Wonderful ceiling light with decorated glass shade and base in porcelain. Designed and made in Norway from circa 1950s first half. The lamp is fully working and in very good vintage ...
Category
1950s Scandinavian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain, Glass
$1,200 / item
Country Style Easter Bowl Porcelain with Hare Figure Sofina Boutique Kitzbuehel
Located in Kitzbühel, Tirol
Completely handmade porcelain bowl with a hands-free naturalistic painted hare figure with grey spots. The Easter bunny is sitting in the middle of the bowl for decorating nuts or sw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary German Country Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
French Louis XVI Style Figural Gilt Bronze Mantel Clock - Étienne Le Noir, Paris
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine and Palatial French Louis XVI style figural gilt bronze mantel clock. The vase shaped case surmounted with a pomegranate-cast finial and flanked by large satyr mask handles fitted with intertwined gilt-bronze snakes, amongst floral wreaths, ribbons and acanthus. The rectangular acanthus decorated base flanked on each side with a figure of a cherub holding a globe and a Putti writing a poem, both above a plinth decorated with fruit and floral garlands surmounted with lion-mask-legs. The circular white enamel dial with wreaths of flowers with Roman and Arabic numerals, Signed: Étienne Le Noir...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
$48,950 Sale Price
41% Off
Nude Woman in Bisquit Art Deco 1930 German Manufacture Carl Werner Artist White
By Carl Werner
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Nude woman in Bisquit Art Deco 1930 German Manufacture Carl Werner Artist white color.
Category
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Powder Blue Crackle Glazed Porcelain Vase Thorkild Olsen Royal Copenhagen #2491
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
Powder blue Royal Copenhagen crackle glazed porcelain vase with gilded banding
Notable, well defined dark crackle exterior
Designed by Thorkild Olsen
Circa 1954
Stamped and numbered...
Category
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$472 Sale Price
60% Off
Large Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Porcelain Totai Vase
Located in Queens, NY
An antique Japanese Meiji period cloisonne enamel porcelain vase, characterized by its exquisite multi colored floral and foliage motifs on a green ground. The use of a vibrant color...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Royal Doulton Service 12 English Raised Gold Gilt Encrusted Dinner Plates
Located in Roslyn, NY
A Wonderful Service Of Royal Doulton 12 Antique English Raised Gold Gilt Encrusted Service / Dinner Plates.
Stamped Royal Doulton England On The Back Of Each Plate.
Category
20th Century English Belle Époque Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Large 20th Century Chinese Export Porcelain Decorative Piece
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Add a touch of traditional Chinese artistry to your space with this large 20th Century Chinese export Porcelain Decorative Piece. This striking piece features a classic bottle shape ...
Category
20th Century Asian Chinese Export Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Large Vieux Paris Porcelain Table Lamps
Located in Essex, MA
Old vieux Paris porcelain from the Napoleonic period decorated with farm animals and barn. With swan handles. Beautifully painted and fire gilded. Now mounted as lamps.
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Brass
$4,800 / set
Colin Pearson British Studio Pottery Turquoise Vessel
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish vintage British studio pottery twin handled vessel by Colin Pearson. The vessel is made in porcelain and is of cylindrical shape with ...
Category
1990s English Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain, Pottery
Ralph Lauren Home Hampton Floral Dishes ~ 12 Place Settings Set
Located in New York, NY
A set of1 12 (twelve) place settings in the Hampton Floral pattern by Ralph Lauren Home collection for Wedgwood. Porcelain. Signed, circa 1995-1996.
Features a tartan border with colorful floral pattern on white with gold rim...
Category
1990s English Country Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Art nouveau jewelry box
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Art nouveau jewelry box
Art nouveau jewelry box
Materials: bronze, double-celled glass, enamel and procelain palaca
Origin France Circa 1920
Uphols...
Category
1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Crystal, Bronze, Enamel
Antique Chinese Rose Mandarin Porcelain Vase, 19th Century
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A very fine, antique Chinese Rose Mandarin porcelain vase.
With rich polychrome enamel decoration on a light celadon ground.
An excel...
Category
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Staffordshire Porcelain Lilac Sprig Decorated Jug
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine antique English Staffordshire porcelain jug decorated with lilac sprigged floral designs and dating from around 1830. The jug is finely made in white porcelain and is of ...
Category
1830s English Regency Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chinese Celadon Blue And White Vase
Located in Norwood, NJ
A large antique 19th century Chinese floor vase having a celadon ground and blue and white underglaze decoration to the body. The underglaze decoration is of a Fenghuang (Phoenix) bi...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$881 Sale Price
25% Off
Yates Tea Service, Cobalt Blue, Gilt and Flowers patt. 1038, ca 1825
Located in London, GB
This is beautiful tea service consisting of a teapot with cover, a plate, a slop bowl, four teacups on saucers and four coffee cups on saucers. The service was made by the Yates fact...
Category
1820s English Regency Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$2,740 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Early 20th Century Set 30 English Decorated Minton Fine China Dessert Plates
By Minton
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Set of 30 English Hand-Decorated Minton Fine China Dessert Plates. The beautifully vibrant color hand painted dessert plates, each with a colorf...
Category
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Regency Baronet Bavaria Czechoslovakia Floral China - Set of 10
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Infuse your dining experience with timeless European elegance using this set of 8 Vintage Regency Baronet Bavaria Czechoslovakia Floral China plates. Each plate features a vibrant ha...
Category
Mid-20th Century Slovak Regency Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$460 Sale Price / set
20% Off
HU02T Pendant Lamp L by Taiwan Lantern
Located in Geneve, CH
HU02T Pendant Lamp L by Taiwan Lantern
Dimensions: D 57 x W 57 x H 50 cm.
Material: Walnut & bamboo frame, Hand-colored fabrics, Metal pipes, Leath...
Category
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Metal
$4,465 / item
Coffee Tea Service Flash One Dorothy Hafner for Rosenthal Studio-Line
Located in Vienna, AT
Designed by Dorothy Hafner 1985 for Rosenthal Studio-Line Germany. Porcelain, mint green and black glazed, 11 pieces,
1 x coffee pot,
2 x coffee cup with saucers,
2 x plates,
2 x ...
Category
1980s German Post-Modern Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
New Hall Porcelain Dish Bat Printed Pattern in Manner of Adam Buck, Ca 1820
By New Hall
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a bone china porcelain Dish or Stand by New Hall dating to the Georgian Regency period of the early 19th century, circa 1820.
The dish is well potted on a low foot.
The decoration is bat printed in the manner of Adam Buck...
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$250 Sale Price
44% Off
91 Pieces, Vintage, 1933, Noritake 'Adelpha' Bone China Set - 12 Place Settings
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Elegant Noritake Adelpha dining set for 12.
Based on the stamp this set was made between 1933 and 1940.
The set includes:
(12) Dinner plates - 10"
(1...
Category
1930s Japanese American Classical Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$520 Sale Price
34% Off
Antique Genuine Meissen Reticulated Porcelain Cattle Plate
Located in Newark, England
With Finely Painted Cattle Scenes
From our Ceramics collection, we are delighted to offer this very unusual Meissen Reticulated Porcelain Plate. The Meissen Plate is beautifully po...
Category
Mid-19th Century German High Victorian Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
FORNASETTI Tema E Variazioni Porcelain Plate #81
By Fornasetti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage Piero Fornasetti "Tema e Variazioni" porcelain plate depicting the smoking face of the famous opera singer Lina Cavalieri, no.81 / made in Milano Italy circa 1960
Original ma...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$472 Sale Price
25% Off
Karolina Porcelain Coffee Service, Poland, 1950s / 1960s
Located in Chorzów, PL
Porcelain coffee set, a rare design of the Karolina set from the mid-twentieth century.
The service includes a jug, milk jug, sugar bowl, 6 cups and 6 saucers. One saucer has more...
Category
1950s Polish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$336 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Japanese Little Porcelain Box for Incense and Jewelry 1980s KOUUN
Located in Paris, FR
This is a small box which is made with porcelain.
This can be used as KOURO (the box we use to put some incense which we use during a traditional tea ceremony.). And also as a jewelr...
Category
Late 20th Century Japanese Showa Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese White and Blue Nature Motif Porcelain Urn
Located in Queens, NY
"Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) large white, porcelain urn with a scene of blue flora and fauna, and two dark blue scrolled handles along the neck.
Light wear with some damage ...
Category
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Textured volcanic glaze narrow open vase
Located in London, GB
A heavily textured volcanic open shaped vessel with black and white glaze and markings. Made from black textured stoneware clay and porcelain engobe.
Inspiration for the piece comes...
Category
2010s British Organic Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Porcelain
$1,251 / item
Wonderfully Painted Globe on Vintage Green Porcelain Fitter
By Alabax Lighting
Located in Prescott, US
We just don't see many examples from the 1920s that rise to the bold exuberance displayed on the expertly painted (and fired on) design on the globe. Very hard to find Bungalow Green...
Category
Mid-20th Century American American Craftsman Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Sculptural White Ceramic Kawa Vessel, Large 01, Leather Cast Porcelain Vase
By Luft Tanaka
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A large porcelain vessel with leather textured exterior surface and clear glazed interior. As a result of the production process each item is one-of-a-kind.
A multitude of small leather panels are sewn together to create the leather mold for the Kawa Series...
Category
2010s American Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Hot Air Balloon Plate, Mongolfiere , Rosenthal, #2
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Hot Air Balloon Plates,
Mongolfiere Pattern,
Rosenthal, Motiv 2,
1980s
The Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate was made by Rosenthal and depicts a scene of ...
Category
1980s Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
French Andre Francois Limoges Art Deco Lidded Bowl
By André François
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a lovely French Andre Francois Limoges Art Deco lidded bowl in superb condition.
This is a lidded bowl or tureen made in Limoges France ci...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Qing Dynasty Flambé Glazed Bottle Vase, Tianqiuping, Late 19th Century
Located in Austin, TX
A gorgeous Chinese monochrome red flambé glazed bottle vase, called a tianqiuping, Qing Dynasty, late 19th century.
The voluptuous body o...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal Porcelain Vase
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal Studio line vase with a rich cobalt blue bird motif.
Category
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Pierced Blanc de Chine and Bisque Porcelain Lamp
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Vintage bulbous pierced single lamp, of grand scale. The globe-form Blanc de Chine bottom portion surmounted by a cylindrical pierced top of unglazed bisque porcelain.
Base (Diame...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Set Of 6 Lafarge Limoges For Le Cirque Restaurant Monkey Salad Plates
By Limoges
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A set of six Lafarge Limoges for Le Cirque Restaurant porcelain salad plates displaying vibrant green trims with scenes of monkeys picking fruit.
Dimensions: 8 7/8" W x 3/4" H
Cond...
Category
20th Century French Hollywood Regency Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
17th Century Portuguese Tile Panel
Located in Madrid, ES
Largest collection of Portuguese tiles in the world
17th Century Portuguese tile panel.
Restored
56cm x 56cm
14cm x 14cm tiles
17th Century
Shortly afterwards, these plain white ti...
Category
17th Century Portuguese Baroque Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Polychrome Porcelain Lidded Vases
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
This pair of exquisite lidded Chinoiserie vases, or ginger jars, features an intricate, hand-painted polychrome decoration of flowers and foo dogs – mythical lion-like creatures that...
Category
20th Century Chinese Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain, Paint
Pair of French Bronze and Porcelain Sevres Foliage Ribbon Wall Sconces, C. 1820
Located in Charleston, SC
Pair of French figural bronze and porcelain Sevres two arm foliage with ribbon wall sconces. Pair are candle powered but can be electrified if desir...
Category
1820s French Louis Philippe Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Italian Gold Gilt Tole Table Lamps, Pair
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful pair of tall Italian gold gilt tole leaf and porcelain glazed flower table lamps, circa mid-20th century, 1960s, Italy. Bases are gold gilt ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Metal, Tôle
$2,800 / set
Vintage Chinese Porcelain Vase Hand Painted
Located in Milano, IT
Vintage Chinese porcelain ornamental oriental vase dating from the early 1900s.
The vase is entirely hand painted, depicting flowers and birds.
The vintage Chinese porcelain vase...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$960 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Haviland Limoges Set of 6 Porcelain Plates with Flower Decor Gold and Moss Green
By Edouard Dammouse, Haviland & Co.
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Set of 6 antique luncheon or salad plates features an abstract flower decor in gold and moss green colors. The decor appears to be a variation of the iconic Dammouse pattern that wa...
Category
Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Gold
Alev Siesbye for Royal Copenhagen. Large porcelain bowl with blue glaze
Located in København, Copenhagen
Alev Siesbye for Royal Copenhagen.
Large porcelain bowl decorated with blue glaze and rim embellished with silver.
Model number 1185577.
Late 20th century.
Perfect condition.
First ...
Category
Late 20th Century Danish Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
French Set of Four Reticulated Porcelain Dessert Plates , Circa 1880
Located in Austin, TX
French Set of 4 Reticulated Porcelain Dessert Plates , Circa 1880.
Decorated with flowers.
7.8 inches diameter.
Category
1880s French Victorian Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Chinese Famille Verte Fishbowl
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Fine Chinese Famille Verte fishbowl, with rich plum enameled background, two finely painted court scenes, the interior painted with goldfish and ...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$1,560 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Matcha Bowl for Tea Ceremony FUJIN Kyo-kiyomizu Narutakigama
Located in Paris, FR
This is a matcha bowl which we use for tea ceremony. This is all hand painted and it was made with style Kyo-kiyomizu, Narutaki gama which was made in Kyoto prefecture.
And the desig...
Category
1990s Japanese Showa Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Worcester for USA Market Aesthetic Movement Floral Triangular Jug
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine Aesthetic Movement Royal Worcester triangular shaped jug hand painted with flowers and butterflies and made for Bailey Banks & Biddle in Philadelphia dated 1882. The porcelain jug is very reminiscent of the designs of Christopher Dresser with its angles and patterning and is formed in the shape of a triangle on a slightly wider foot with a decorative scroll and loop terminal handle and with a shaped top rim with a raised pouring spout with a low relief embossed stylized floral motif below and with an embossed floral edge border around the upper rim. The jug has a Z pattern border around the foot and is hand painted with floral and butterfly patterns around the body in colored enamels on ivory ground. The handle, upper rim, the embossed design and Z patterning around the foot are all painted in a satin brown color and highlighted with gilding which has also been used to outline the hand painted patterning to the body. The jug has a puce printed maker’s mark to the base along with a date code for 1882 and has puce printed retailers mark for Bailey Banks & Biddle. There are further painted marks and an impressed number to the rim. It is known that Christopher Dresser sold...
Category
1880s English Aesthetic Movement Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Important Box, Sèvres Porcelain Box, Napoleon III Period
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Important box, Sèvres porcelain box, Napoleon III period.
Sèvres porcelain box, jewelry box, decorated with gallant scenes, signed, gilded brass mount, very nice quality, 19th cen...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Brass
Antique Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Large Bowl with Colour Emamels
Located in Brea, CA
an antique important fine gold Chinese famille rose porcelain 12'' bowl with very beautiful colour enamels, hand painted, mark DaQingQianLongNianZhi, excellent condition, Measures: 1...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Box Sevres Porcelain
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Box sevres porcelain
octagonal format
Decorated with flowers inside (hand-painted)
Bronze frame
Perfect condition
Circa 1900 origin France.
Category
Early 1900s French Neoclassical Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Antique Chinoiserie Style Flow-Blue Plate
Located in Clearwater, FL
A 19th century Imari chinoiserie style flow blue plate. With a Japanese vase and iron red flowers and touches of gold throughout. A lovely display piece for any flow blue collection....
Category
1890s English Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Meiji Period Large Japanese Imari Bowl Centerpiece
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Meiji period large Japanese Imari bowl centerpiece
This large, distinctive, octagonal porcelain Imari bowl is painted in rich, inky blue, co...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$625 Sale Price
50% Off
Antique and Vintage Porcelain Decorative Objects, Tableware, Dinner Plates and Other Furniture for Sale
While it is tempting to store your antique and vintage porcelain decorative objects and other items behind closed glass cabinet doors and reserve them only for display, your porcelain dinner plates and serving platters can safely weather the “dangers” of the dining room and be used during meals. So go ahead and dress up your dining table for a special meal with a range of porcelain tableware, platters and tea service from 1stDibs.
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.
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.
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. Elsewhere, Denmark’s Royal Copenhagen first made dinnerware and vases with blue-and-white motifs inspired by Chinese porcelain. Hungarian brand Herend favors large, bold designs for its porcelain, with its serving pieces, dishes and other works incorporating historical scenes, animals or vegetation.
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.
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.
Find antique and vintage porcelain made in a variety of styles on 1stDibs.
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