Dinner Plates
1890s French French Provincial Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Faience
20th Century American Modern Dinner Plates
Sterling Silver
Early 19th Century German Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1890s French Aesthetic Movement Antique Dinner Plates
Majolica, Ceramic
1990s Sri Lankan American Classical Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Late 19th Century English High Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1880s French Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Faience
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Early 1900s French French Provincial Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Majolica
20th Century German Neoclassical Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1890s French Rustic Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
20th Century Dinner Plates
Crystal
20th Century English Belle Époque Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1890s English Japonisme Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1890s French Rustic Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1920s Danish Vintage Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1990s English Country Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1960s Italian Vintage Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Wood
1880s French Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1760s German Rococo Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1990s Portuguese Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Early 20th Century English Dinner Plates
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Thai Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Dinner Plates
Porcelain
2010s Italian Dinner Plates
Ceramic
19th Century English Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
19th Century Japanese Chinese Export Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
19th Century French Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Faience, Paint
Late 20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Bone, Porcelain
20th Century English Belle Époque Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Dinner Plates
Pearlware, Pottery
1910s English Vintage Dinner Plates
Porcelain
20th Century Japanese Hollywood Regency Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1930s German Vintage Dinner Plates
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1880s French Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
20th Century German Belle Époque Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Early 19th Century Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Czech Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1980s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1940s French French Provincial Vintage Dinner Plates
Faience
21st Century and Contemporary English Modern Dinner Plates
Porcelain, Paint
21st Century and Contemporary English Modern Dinner Plates
Porcelain, Paint
Mid-20th Century French Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dinner Plates
Ceramic
Early 20th Century French Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1840s English Regency Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1950s American Vintage Dinner Plates
Porcelain
1880s Belgian Victorian Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
20th Century Austrian Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Italian Organic Modern Dinner Plates
Ceramic, Pottery
1890s German Rustic Antique Dinner Plates
Ceramic
1910s European Vintage Dinner Plates
Gold
Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Dinner Plates
Earthenware
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Early 20th Century English Victorian Dinner Plates
Porcelain
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.





