Dinner Plates
Late 20th Century Danish Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1890s French Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Majolica
1890s French Rustic Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
19th Century English Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain, Paste
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Early 20th Century German Art Deco Dinner Plates
Earthenware
1970s French Modern Vintage Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1960s French French Provincial Vintage Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Majolica
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Modern Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Late 19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
2010s Italian Dinner Plates
Ceramic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dinner Plates
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dinner Plates
Onyx, Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dinner Plates
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dinner Plates
Onyx, Quartz
2010s Italian Other Dinner Plates
Ceramic
19th Century Japanese Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Late 20th Century French Regency Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1970s German Vintage Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1890s French Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Majolica
1890s French Country Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Majolica
18th Century Chinese Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1930s English Aesthetic Movement Vintage Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1950s American Vintage Dinner Plates
Art Glass
17th Century Chinese Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
2010s Italian Modern Dinner Plates
Gold
2010s Peruvian Brutalist Dinner Plates
Clay
Late 19th Century German Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
20th Century Italian Post-Modern Dinner Plates
Porcelain
2010s Italian Modern Dinner Plates
Marble
1890s English Rustic Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Faience
1970s German Vintage Dinner Plates
Porcelain
2010s Italian Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1920s Danish Vintage Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1880s English Rustic Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1880s English Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Majolica
Early 1900s French French Provincial Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Early 20th Century German Art Deco Dinner Plates
Earthenware
Mid-19th Century English Antique Dinner Plates
Ironstone
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Dinner Plates
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary American Organic Modern Dinner Plates
Plastic
Early 20th Century Danish Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1970s French Vintage Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1980s German Vintage Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1960s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Dinner Plates
Stoneware
Early 1900s German Rustic Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1920s German Vintage Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Porcelain
Early 2000s German Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1950s American Modern Vintage Dinner Plates
Stoneware
1890s French Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Majolica
2010s Italian Modern Dinner Plates
Marble
1880s French Country Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
2010s Italian Dinner Plates
Ceramic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Majolica
1880s French Country Antique Dinner Plates
Majolica
1880s French Country Antique Dinner Plates
Majolica
1980s German Vintage Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1890s French Rustic Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Antique and Vintage Dinner Plates
Set the mood when you’re setting the table. The right antique and vintage dinner plates for the meals in your home can truly elevate the dining experience.
We haven’t had our own plate at dinner for very long. It wasn’t until the middle of the 19th century in Europe that individual dinner plates had become the norm, replacing the platters that diners had shared before them. Innovations at the dining table are believed to have been introduced by Italian noblewoman Catherine de’ Medici, who, when she married King Henry II of France in 1533, brought with her decorative table adornments for meals and fine tableware such as silver forks, replacing the fingers and knives utilized during dinner before her arrival. Italy was a bit faster on table settings, and, thanks to Catherine, tableware such as dinner plates would also replace the wooden trenchers and flat slabs of days-old bread that preceded them.
Today, while enthusiasts of mid-century modern furnishings might pine for vintage mismatched dinner plates — a mix of old and new can be refreshing — presenting ceramic vessels, glassware and decorative centerpieces that matched was once actually part of the point as setting the table became more refined during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And as Fornasetti dinner plates and Chinese porcelain tableware have long held weight as collector’s items and status symbols, your dinner dishes haven’t ever really been merely functional. From antique metal dishes and ornamental earthenware designed by celebrated English ceramics makers Wedgwood, dinner plates are statement-making works that bring elegance and likely stir conversation at your table.
Entertaining is an art form, and the kitchen bar island and dining room table in your space are cherished gathering places where families and friends convene and grow closer over good meals. Browse an extensive collection of antique and vintage dinner plates to pair with these important events today on 1stDibs.





