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Material: Porcelain
Hermes "Chaine D
Ancre" Vide Poche or Change Tray
By Hermès
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage Hermes "Chaine D'Ancre" platinum square porcelain vide-poche, change tray or pocket emptier with base in suede / Made in France circa 1990s
Original stamp on the side / comes...
Category
Late 20th Century French Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$525 Sale Price
30% Off
Porcelain Bulb Pan in Matte Bisque
Located in Manassas Park, VA
Middle Kingdom garden wares are modeled after traditional terra cotta wares but are made from pigmented porcelain. The Classic, elegant style of this bulb pan...
Category
2010s Chinese Greco Roman Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$55 / item
Modern Decor Small White Happy Susto Ceramic Flower Vase by Jaime Hayon
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Modern Decor Small White Happy Susto Ceramic Flower Vase by Jaime Hayon
Materials:
Porcelain
Dimensions:
D 10 cm x W 24 cm x H 34 cm
A cerami...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Italian Naples Capodimonte Urn 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful antique Italian Naples Capodimonte porcelain urn, late 19th Century in date and bearing the Naples Capodimonte blue painted crown s...
Category
1890s Italian Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Limoges Porcelain Tableware, 56 Pieces
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Beautiful Limoges porcelain tableware with floral decoration and gilding comprising 56 pieces:
24 flat plates, 10 small plates, 12 soup plates, one soup tureen or vegetable dish , on...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$581 Sale Price / set
27% Off
Large Italian Capodimonte Porcelain Hollywood Regency Mirror with Cherubs
Located in Antwerp, BE
Large Italian Capodimonte Porcelain Hollywood Regency Mirror with Cherubs and Flowers, 1950s
A lavish Italian Capodimonte porcelain mirror...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain, Mirror
Bulbo
Set of Sconces by R. Barbieri
G. Marianelli for Tronconi, 1970s, Italy
Located in Hagenbach, DE
Bulbo Model Set of Three Sconces by Raul Barbieri & Giorgio Marianelli for Tronconi, 1970's, Italy
Very nice high quality wall lamps.
Lamps are in very good vintage condition.
The...
Category
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain, Glass
Pair Of Hollywood Regency Blanc De Chine Lamps
Located in Houston, TX
Pair Of Hollywood Regency Blanc De Chine Lamps.
This lovely pair of Asian modern blanc de Chine table lamps feature trees
with floral blossoms mounted on wooden bases.
These beautif...
Category
1960s Chinese Hollywood Regency Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$984 Sale Price / set
24% Off
Raynaud Limoges 23-Piece Porcelain Tea
Coffee Service with Gold Trim
By Limoges
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
This 23-piece tea and coffee service by Raynaud & Cie embodies the elegance and artistry for which Limoges porcelain is renowned. Each piece is crafted from fine, translucent porcela...
Category
20th Century French Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Tapio Wirkkala for Rosenthal Porcelain Wide Mouth Vase, Western Germany, 1960s
Located in Bochum, NRW
Tapio Wirkkala for Rosenthal, Germany
Wide mouthed vase in white porcelain, ribbed rim, hand painted with fine thin gold lines. Very good used condition.
Dimensions:
Height 17 cm [6 ...
Category
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
French Gilt Limoges Style Porcelain Handled Centerpiece
Located in Dallas, TX
This listing features a Limoges style cobalt blue handled centerpiece with gilt bronze and hand painted ornamentation. There are no visible markings to suggest that this is an origin...
Category
20th Century French Rococo Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Bronze
16 Gilt Encrusted Salad or Dessert Plates, Antique Custom Ordered English C 1910
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A fantastic set of dessert or first course plates with a nice wide collar of 24 karat acid etched gold banding. The perfect size you always need more of. These versatile gold and whi...
Category
1910s European Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Gold
Large Chinese Oxblood Porcelain Water Gilt Table Lamp
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Large single) oxblood (red) porcelain vase table lamp, mounted on 23-karat water giltwood base. Interior vase cap is also turned wood in a 23-karat gilt finish. Antiqued finish hardw...
Category
1970s Unknown Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Brass
Cobalt Blue
White Prunus Blossom
Cracked Ice Chinese Porcelain Vase
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
This elegant Chinese porcelain vase features a deep cobalt blue background contrasted beautifully with a delicate white prunus blossom and cracked ice pattern.
The slender neck and...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Mid-Century Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Wedgwood English Dinner Service For Twelve / Serving Pieces
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Wedgwood Porcelain England dinnerware service for Twelve people with serving pieces. T. Goode London Crown mark & numbered " 1184 & 332" undersigned. Each piece is great vintage condition. Minor wear consistent with age / use. All together 92 pieces. Set include: 12 dinner plates 10.5”. 12 salad plates 9.3”. 12 bread plates 8”. 11 butter plates 6”. 12 cups with handles 5" x 2.5 ". 12 saucers 5.3”. 11 Soup plate 10" x 1.5”. 10 half moon plates 8.3" x 5”. 3 covered tureens 10.5" x 6.5”. 2 small covered tureen with under plate 7" x 5.5”. 1 oval extra large platter...
Category
Early 20th Century English Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Gold
Suffragette Plate, "Deeds Not Words"
"Votes for Women", The Only Known Example
Located in York County, PA
ENGLISH PORCELAIN SUFFRAGETTE PLATE WITH "DEEDS, NOT WORDS" AND "VOTES FOR WOMEN" SLOGANS, ONE-OF-A-KIND AMONG KNOWN EXAMPLES, CA 1905-1918
English porcelain plate, made for the Women's Suffrage movement in the U.K. One-of-a-kind among presently known examples, this wonderful Arts & Crafts design features a green, frog-like pattern around the border, surrounding violet and green or daisies, on a polka dot green background. Interspersed between the flowers are the words "Votes for Women" and, in Latin, the phrase "Facta non Verba...
Category
Early 20th Century English Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen, Germany. Six dinner plates in porcelain. 1920s/30s
Located in København, Copenhagen
Meissen, Germany.
Six dinner plates in porcelain.
Hand-painted with floral motifs and insects in blue.
Approximately 1920s/1930s.
Marked.
Third factory quality.
In excellent conditio...
Category
1920s German Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
French Pair of Period Louis XV Tole, Ormolu and Porcelain Flower Wall Sconces.
Located in Vero Beach, FL
French Pair of Period Louis XV Tole, Ormolu and Porcelain Flower Wall Sconces.
Very rare pair of appliques in finely chiseled gilded bronze with...
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Organic White Ceramic Vase, Kawa Vase 21, Handmade Sculptural Porcelain object
By Luft Tanaka
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Kawa Vase 21
Organic white ceramic vase with textured raw porcelain exterior surface and clear glazed interior. As a result of the production process each item is one-of-a-kind.
Va...
Category
2010s American Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Porcelain
Vintage White Porcelain Ceiling Light with Frosted Glass, 1970s
Located in Kojetice, CZ
Vintage industrial light made in Poland during the 1970s.It features a white porcelain ceiling mounting and a frosted glass cover. The socket requires E27/E 26 light bulbs. New wire....
Category
1970s Polish Industrial Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain, Glass
Antique Japanese Plate Kutaniyaki 1950s
Located in Paris, FR
This is Kutani 1950th Century.
This plate was made with porcelain, style of kutaniyaki.
It is a traditional craft of ceramics with overglaze painting and was born in the early Edo period. Kutani ware...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$361 Sale Price
20% Off
#3 Antique Chinese Porcelain 18th C Kangxi/Yongzheng Blue White Set Dinner
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely decorated SET of 3 dishes
Flower scene.
Condition
no hairlines, no restorations, just some minimal frits/fleebites to rim. Size 22.4x2.7CM DiameterxHeight
Period
18th...
Category
18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$893 Sale Price
20% Off
Set of 4 Japanese Koransha Teacups
By Koransha
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elegant set of 4 Koransha tea cups, from Lindfield series, with delicately hand drawn spring orchids / Made in Japan in 2000s
Original mark at the base
Diameter 3.5 inches, height 2 ...
Category
20th Century Japanese Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$540 Sale Price / set
40% Off
Rosenthal Versace Barocco Espresso Mocha Cup
Saucer Gold Paul Wunderlich
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
This luxurious Rosenthal Versace espresso/mocha cup and saucer collection is an exceptional example of artistic porcelain design. The shape of the cup...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Meissen Acanthus Leaf Mocha Teacup
Saucer 1st Choice White
Gold
Located in Dayton, OH
Meissen Porcelain, blue sword mark 1st choice, Pfeiffer period 1924-1934, acanthus decor, model no. Y33
Dimensions:
5.75" x 3" (Diameter x Height)
Category
Early 20th Century Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$468 Sale Price
20% Off
Fine Quality French Dore
Bronze Figural Mantel Clock with Sevres Plaques
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This exquisite French Dore’ Bronze Figural Mantel Clock is a masterful example of 19th-century craftsmanship, blending artistry, luxury, and functionality into one timeless piece. Th...
Category
1930s French Louis XV Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Antique Chinese Export Vase Canton Rose Medallion Porcelain, Qing circa 1840
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very decorative Chinese export, Canton porcelain, rose medallion Vase which we date to the 19th century, Qing dynasty, circa 1840.
The vase has a baluster shape with a f...
Category
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Hand-Painted Porcelain Mantel Clock by Royal Bonn for Ansonia
By Royal Bonn
Located in Tarry Town, NY
A beautifully executed mid-19th century mantel clock by the esteemed Ansonia Clock Company, featuring the “La Layon” model in collaboration with Royal Bonn, one of Germany’s most cel...
Category
Mid-19th Century German Louis XVI Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Brass
Set of 4 Plates K. Fujumori for Kato Kogei Japan Alpha3 Post-Modern Memphis 1980
By Fujimori
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Set of 4 salad/occasional plates in Alpha 3 pattern was designed by Kaneaki Fujimori for Kato Kogei Japan in 1980s. Alpha 3 series consists of mugs, salad/casual plates, and decorat...
Category
1980s Japanese Post-Modern Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Pottery
Mid Century Modern Life Size Porcelain Sculpture of a Seated Whippet Dog Italy
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous and elegant porcelain life size figure of a female whippet. Absolutely so real life like it's amazing! Such a beautiful face you want to hug this dog. 11 x 20 x 24h and weig...
Category
1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain, Terracotta
Georges BASTARD Art Deco Rower Porcelain Bottle 1924, Paris Olympic Games
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
French Art Deco rower porcelain bottle by Georges BASTARD (Paris), France, ca.1924. Designed by Margerie. White porcelain made in Limoges. Height : 10.4"(26.5cm), Width : 3.5"(9cm), ...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Wedgwood Porcelain Dinner Service for Twelve People
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Wedgwood porcelain dinnerware with gilt gold design detail service for twelve people with serving pieces. Each piece is in great condition. Maker's ...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Gold
$22,984 / set
German Art Deco Vase in Porcelain by Mitterteich Bavaria
Located in San Diego, CA
Petite beautiful Art Deco round vase made in Bavaria Germany in porcelain finish with hand painted designs, by Mitterteich Germany, circa 1940s.
Category
20th Century German Art Deco Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$180 Sale Price
20% Off
Adjustable bauhaus porcelain pendant with opal glass shade vienna around 1920s
Located in Wien, AT
Adjustable bauhaus porcelain pendant with opal glass shade vienna around 1920s
Original condition
Original glass shade
Category
1920s German Art Deco Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Porcelain Cache-Pot Planter with Blue and White Mountainous Landscape
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese vintage porcelain cache-pot planter from the mid 20th century with hand-painted blue and white décor depicting landscapes, architectures and figures in boats patterns. Created in China during the midcentury period, this porcelain cache-pot features a tapering silhouette perfectly accented by a blue and white décor. Showcasing an opening of 10.5 inches diameter, the piece is adorned on its upper lip with geometric motifs inspired by honeycombs, surrounding delicate floral motifs. The round tapering body attracts all of our attention with its delicate hand painted décor presenting traditional architectures such as pagodas set...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of large antique Japanese Imari porcelain vases
Located in Brea, CA
Large Japanese beautiful porcelain vases A pair of baluster Imari porcelain vases, Japan, Meiji. Polychrome floral decor, very beautiful ,
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 12 Havilland- Limoges Dinner Plates, Six Fish and Crustacean Designs
By Limoges
Located in San Francisco, CA
This set of Limoges Dinner Plates are quite rare. The set consists of six different designs, two each in
the set. The designs are very reminiscen...
Category
1950s French Chinoiserie Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$700 Sale Price / set
22% Off
Pair of Large Blue and White Porcelain Jars, Japanese Meiji Era, Circa 1880
Located in Katonah, NY
This splendid pair of large 20" tall jars presents a lyrical garden scene hand-painted in underglaze cobalt blue on creamy white porcelain.
Each jar features a songbird perched amid ...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 12 Antique Meissen Porcelain
Old Ozier
Pattern Cabinet or Dinner Plates
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine set of 12 antique, 18th century German porcelain plates.
By the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory.
In the Old Ozier pattern.
Each ...
Category
1760s German Rococo Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Blue and White Chinese Export Large Charger, Late Kangxi Period, circa 1700
Located in Kinderhook, NY
An exquisite Chinese late Kangxi period (1661 - 1722) blue and white porcelain charger of large size made for export to Europe, of circular form with raised convex central roundel pa...
Category
1690s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Staffordshire Porcelain Fox Pheasant Hunt Pastille Burner Spill Vase 8"
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique Staffordshire porcelain figural pastille burner / spill vase depicting a lean red fox standing by a tree stump with a brightly colored pheasant lying at its feet after succes...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$188 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese Famille Verte Cabbage Jar, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This whimsical Chinese ginger jar is decorated with famille verte enamels for an allover design of leafy green cabbage. Depicting the white stalks and curling leaves of a head of nap...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Japanese Kakiemon Style Porcelain Oil Jar, Showa Era, circa 1960
s
Located in Austin, TX
A charming and elegant vintage Japanese Kakiemon style oil jar or vase, Showa Era, circa 1960's or earlier, Japan.
The oil pot of standard form, with a squat comprised globular body...
Category
1960s Japanese Showa Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Organic Kawa Pendant Light 04 by Luft Tanaka, White Porcelain, Modern, Ceramic
By Luft Tanaka
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Kawa Series Light 04 Pendant Light by Luft Tanaka Studio
The translucent porcelain diffuser casts a warm colored glow, perfect for a dining room or kitche...
Category
2010s American Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Bjørn Wiinblad Christmas Plate 1986 "Christmas Carols"
Located in Brønshøj, DK
Bjørn Wiinblad porcelain Christmas plate 1986, produced by Rosenthal
Motif: O Tannenbaum
Designed by: Bjørn Wiinblad
Diameter: 11" - 29 cm
Comes in original box and pamphlet. Bo...
Category
1980s German Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$142 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Turquoise Glazed Parrots Chinese Porcelain 30cm
Located in Poperinge, BE
Rare pair of parrot or cockatoo figurines, made of blue or turquoise and purple glazed Chinese porcelain, circa the first half of the 20th century. Marked on the bottom with the make...
Category
1920s Chinese Chinoiserie Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Fornasetti “Greca” Cups and Saucers, Italy, ca. 1955
Located in Stockholm, SE
An early pair of porcelain cups with saucers, designed by Piero Fornasetti (1913–1988) in Milan, circa 1955.
The model “Greca” is decorated with a black and gilt neoclassical key mot...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Moderne Porcelain Table Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French circa 1970's porcelain lamps.
Measurements:
Height of body: 17.5"
Diameter: 8".
Category
1970s French Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$4,800 / set
Pair of Impressive Cobalt Blue Gilt Rams Head Lidded Urns
Located in Worcester, GB
Pair of Fine Sevres Style Cobalt Blue Rams Head Lidded urns
We are pleased to offer a stunning matched pair of highly ornate late twentieth porcelain lidded urns.
Hand painted & g...
Category
Late 20th Century Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Vintage Delft Blue and White Ceramic and Brass Candlestick 1950
By Delft
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Vintage hand painted ceramic Delft Blue and White with Brass fitting Candle Holder, 1950s.Hand painted Delft Blue and White Ceramic and Brass Single Candlestick.Great collectible pie...
Category
Mid-20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Brass
English Flow Blue China Plate
Located in Clearwater, FL
Antique English flow blue transferware plate stamped Regent.
Category
1890s English Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique English Chelsea Style Porcelain Chocolate Cup
Saucer Birds of Paradise
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique English porcelain chocolate cup and saucer pair.
In the Chelsea Porcelain style.
Each hand painted with polychrome bird of paradise motifs surrounded by floral devic...
Category
Early 20th Century British Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique 18C Chinese Porcelain Dish China Figural Mandarin Rose Qianlong Period
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this very nice example of 18th century Mandarin ware. Dating to around 1740.
Absolutely top quality scene of the emperor and Falcon Hunt.
The pictures show a round...
Category
18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$4,253 Sale Price
59% Off
Porcelain Ashtray Dish Belgium Collectible "La Marelle" 1960s
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Vintage "La Marelle" Hotel Restaurant, Brussel, Jewellery, Pin Dish, Ashtray, Porcelain De Baudour Belgium.
Vintage advertising collectible porcelain dish ashtray vide poche catchall...
Category
Mid-20th Century Belgian French Provincial Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Vienna Art Nouveau Floral Painted Unusual Vase by Ernst Wahliss
By Paul Dachsel
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A large and very unusual Austrian Royal Vienna Art Nouveau vase raised on three legs hand painted with autumnal fruiting stems made at the Alexandra Porcelain Works in Turn by Ernst ...
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Hand Painted Midnight Blue Porcelain Vessels by Fiamma, Italy 1950s
Located in Barcelona, ES
Two charming 1950s midnight blue porcelain vessels, made by the Italian porcelain studio Fiamma from Sesto Florentino, Italy. Hand painted pattern in gold, green and red. Marked with...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
1940, Royal Albert Lavender Rose Set of 8, Porcelain Dinner Plates, Gold Rim
By Royal Albert
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Featuring set of 8 delicate, romantic, and unmistakably timeless—the Lavendar Rose dinner plates by Royal Albert captures the essence of English floral elegance. Featuring soft clust...
Category
1940s English Victorian Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Gold
Signed E. F. Caldwell Chinese Porcelain and Gilt Bronze Lamp.
Located in Pittsburgh, PA
This extra fine quality lamp is made of hand painted Chinese porcelain and is trimmed in gilt bronze mounts by E F Caldwell.
Category
Late 19th Century Belle Époque Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Anna Karlin Sketch Light, Large
By Anna Karlin
Located in New York, NY
It is as the name suggests, a sketch brought to life. Glowing porcelain shades made in England hang from its metal structure. Inside each shade, a han...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Aluminum, Steel
$34,450 / item
Emilia Castillo Green Porcelain and Silver Peacock Vase, Taxco Mexico, 1998
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Charming and finely crafted vase designed and manufactured in Taxco, Mexico by renowned silversmith Emilia Castillo in 1998. The piece showcases Castillo’s signature blend of porcela...
Category
1990s Mexican Organic Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Silver
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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