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Material: Porcelain
White Porcelain Ribbed Clear Glass Vintage Industrial Brass Pendant Lights
By 360volt
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Porcelain industrial hanging lamp.
White porcelain, brass and clear striped glass.
2 conductors, no ground.
Weight: 1.20 kg / 2.6 lb
Priced per individual item. All lamps hav...
Category
Mid-20th Century Dutch Industrial Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Brass
Antique Large Pair Chinese Blue
White Porcelain Temple Jars
Located in Norton, MA
This is a large pair of porcelain Temple Jars with the original lids. The theme is dominated by the symbolic patterns of phoenixes and peonies presenting a luxurious rich life and no...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Large Antique Chinese Porcelain
Famille Noire
Vase
Located in Greenwich, CT
An impressive 'famille-noire ‘magpie and prunus' Floor vase,
in very good condition
possibly 19th century or earlier
note : bears old label of French Collector Count de Semalle'...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
White Ceramic Kawa Vase #13, Organic Porcelain Flower Vase, Leather-cast
By Luft Tanaka
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A tall porcelain flower vase with an organic and fabric-like surface. Clear glazed applied on interior surface. As a result of the production pro...
Category
2010s American Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Pair of Derby Mansion House Dwarf Figures porcelain, 19th Century
By Derby
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
These are a pair of Derby Porcelain "Mansion House" Dwarfs or "Grotesque Punches" both with incised model numbers and dating to the 19th century.
Both figures, male and female are m...
Category
19th Century English Georgian Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique French Paris Porcelain Bourdois
Bloch Meissen Style Parrot Figure
Located in Forney, TX
A stunning early 20th century French Belle Époque period Bourdois & Bloch Porcelaine de Paris Meissen style porcelain figure of a parrot.
Made in Paris, France, circa 1910, exceptionally executed, exquisitely detailed throughout and displaying brilliant hand painted rich coloring, with a unique pierced beak, realistically modeled with wings slightly open perched atop a naturalistic tree stump base, Signed, underglaze blue crossed arrows mark to lower tree trunk.
What truly stands out and is absolutely remarkable is how the maker/artist manged to make this work appear like a completely different sculpture depending on the angle it's viewed from.
History:
Paris Porcelain (Porcelain de Paris), a term that conjures images of grandeur, elegance, and sophistication; is to France what Dresden Porcelain is to Germany. Porcelain by a variety of makers from a region rather than one maker, it's the collective name given to the various porcelain studios and decorating workshops within and around Paris, France. In this case and many others Porcelain de Paris is also as good if not sometimes better than Dresden, Meissen or Sevres porcelain and is certainly a collectible to look out for.
The Bourdoir and Bloch factory was originally founded around 1820 and specialized in producing fine quality porcelain in the style of the famous 18th century factories. This most distinctive figural bird was made by the Paris porcelain factory of Bourdoir and Bloch around 1910.
This example bears the August 8, 1887 registered trademark of two blue crossed arrows, used around the time that Eugene Marx Clauss had joined forces with Achille Bloch and Leon Bourdois (who were both collaborators of Samson) and were operating under the name Clauss Co from 1887-1890 in the small factory started by Eugene's grandfather Jean-Marx Clauss in 1788 on rue de la Pierre-Levee in Paris.
This Parisian antique porcelain parrot...
Category
Early 20th Century French Belle Époque Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
French Wrough Iron Mechanical Rotisserie Spit, 19th Century
Located in Labrit, Landes
Ornate and functional 19th-century French cast-iron rotisserie.
It consists of a winding jack resting on four claw feet, a handle, a winding key, 2 positions for the spit from the ro...
Category
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron
$1,048 Sale Price
20% Off
Cabinet de Curiosités, Six Contemporary Decorated Porcelain Bread Plates
By Vito Nesta
Located in Milano, Lombardia
The Cabinet de Curiosités collection takes inspiration from the rooms of the same name which in the sixteenth century collected objects and subjec...
Category
2010s Italian Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$256 Sale Price / set
20% Off
"Homenaje A Miro" Tribute to Joan Miro Porcelain Sculpture by Sargadelos
By Sargadelos
Located in San Diego, CA
"Homenaje A Miro" tribute to Joan Miro porcelain Sculpture by Sargadelos of Spain, circa 1990s. The piece highlights the unique color, forms and shapes that make Miro's works so ex...
Category
Late 20th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Large Chinese Late Qing Dynasty Blue and White Baluster Vase Table Lamp
Located in Kinderhook, NY
A beautiful Chinese late Qing dynasty (1636 - 1912) ribbed baluster form vase of large scale (17.75" x 12") having hand-painted underglaze blue 'Canton' variant pattern of architectu...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Brass, Wire
Porcelain Constantinople 10 Plate
By Les Ottomans
Located in Milan, IT
This exquisite porcelain dinner plate was designed by Vito Nesta and evokes a fantastical world inspired by the Ottoman Empire. In this piece, the background is in a delicate shade o...
Category
2010s Italian Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage 4-Piece Longchamp Place Settings with Serving Tray, Set of 6, France
By Longchamps
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage 4-Piece Longchamp Place Settings with Serving Tray, Set of 6, France
This beautifully hand-painted dish set is in good condition. The floral pattern features brightly colore...
Category
20th Century French French Provincial Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Flo-Blue "Scinde" Pattern Luncheon Plates, 4 Pieces
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These flo blue plates are in such nice condition. One small plate has minor edge chip. Selling the collection of four plates.
Large plate measures 9.5...
Category
19th Century American Country Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$716 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Richard Ginori Porcelain Jewelry Dish Grand Hotel Milano
Located in New York, NY
An Italian porcelain jewelry dish from the Grand Hotel Milano, by Italian designer, Richard Ginori, circa early-20th century, Italy. Dish is off-white porcelain featuring the Cathedr...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique ca 1700 Japanese Arita Kakiemon Unusual shaped Bowl Flowers
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Very happy with this new arrival.
Arita/Kakiemon bowl of unusual shape and design. Besides the very nice floral decoration there is superior overglaze blue
Period unknown. ca 1700
...
Category
17th Century Edo Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Porcelain East German Wall Clock from Weimar Electric, 1970s
Located in Kojetice, CZ
Vintage Industrial wall clock produced by Weimar Electric in former East Germany during the 1970s. It features a porcelain body and an aluminium hands .The battery-powered clockwork ...
Category
1970s German Industrial Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
French 19th Century Napoleon III Mother-of-Pearl Inlay Wall Clock
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This 19th century clock is stunning with its diamond shaped rippling clock frame of ebony painted wood. Mother-of-pearl floral and foliate designs are inlaid in differently stained m...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain, Mother-of-Pearl, Hardwood, Mahogany
Antique Porcelain Box Flowers Chintz Design
Located in New York, NY
An antique porcelain box with floral chintz design, circa late 19th century to early-20th century, Europe. Porcelain box has a hinged lid with an...
Category
Early 20th Century European Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Brass
12-Piece Fish Service - Raynaud Limoges - Porcelain with Gold Gilded Trims
By Limoges
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful porcelain fish service by Raynaud, Limoges, France.
Hand-painted (Décor Main) with detailed freshwater fish motifs, richly decorated with 24-karat gold (Deux Feux or), fi...
Category
1960s French Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
German Porcelain Jewelry Box
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful German oval porcelain jewelry box, in the Regency design style, circa mid-20th century, Germany. Boxes' lid features outdoor nature scene with couple in a park sounded by...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Regency Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Large Tureen And Its Dish In Limoges Porcelain
By Limoges
Located in BARSAC, FR
Large tureen and matching platter with rich floral decoration on a turquoise blue background in the style of Sèvres.
Limoges porcelain, first half of the 20th century.
Superb quali...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Louis XV Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
White Porcelain Vintage Industrial Opaline Milk Glass Pendant Lights
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Industrial pendant.
White porcelain, opaline glass.
2 conductors, no ground.
Weight: 1.06 kg / 2.3 lb
Priced per individual item. All lamps have been made suitable by interna...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Industrial Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain, Glass, Milk Glass, Opaline Glass
Antique Japanese Satsuma Vase, Hand-Painted Warrior Scene, Meiji-Era Masterpiece
By Satsuma
Located in Bochum, NRW
Antique Japanese Satsuma Vase – Hand-Painted Warrior Scene, Meiji-Era Masterpiece.
Japanese Satsuma ceramic vase with polychrome decorations of Japanese men and soldiers in armor. Go...
Category
1930s Japanese Meiji Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$722 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique French Porcelain Turquoise Oyster Plate
Located in Pearland, TX
A gorgeous antique French porcelain oyster plate attributed to Limoges, circa 1900. This fine quality oyster plate has six wells and is hand painted in a beautiful blue green teal / ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$350 Sale Price
22% Off
German Goebel Artis Orbis Porcelain Vase - Gustav Klimt
The Kiss
By A.W. Goebel
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Decorative cushion shaped porcelain vase transfer-printed with permission from the Gustav Klimt Foundation with Klimt's Iconic motif ' Der Kuss' from 1908. Manufactured by Goebel in ...
Category
Late 20th Century German Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
19th C. Sitzendorf Meissen Style Seated Chinoiserie Nodder, Moving Head
Hands
By Sitzendorf
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A 19th Century Sitzendorf Meissen-Style Seated Chinoiserie Nodder—Hand-Painted Porcelain—Articulated Head & Hands
This exquisite 19th-century Sitzendorf Meissen-style Chinoiserie no...
Category
Late 19th Century German Chinoiserie Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Metal
Vintage Porcelain Monkey Lamp
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1960's Italian porcelain monkey lamp
Measurements:
Height of body: 20"
Height to shade rest: 29"
Width: 10"
Depth: 7"
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Natsumi, Six Contemporary Porcelain Dinner Plates with Decorative Design
By Vito Nesta
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Bordeaux and blue are the primary colors of this Japan inspired collection of plates, where ancient Japanese scenes take place on the rivers of a ...
Category
2010s Italian Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$457 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Vintage White Porcelain Ceiling Light with Milk Glass, 1960s
Located in Kojetice, CZ
Vintage industrial ceiling or wall light made in former Czechoslovakia during the 1960s. It features a white porcelain wall mounting and a milk glass cover. The socket requires E27/...
Category
Mid-20th Century Czech Industrial Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain, Milk Glass
Richard Ginori Italian Porcelain Espresso Coffee Tea Cup Saucer
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful vintage Italian porcelain espresso coffee or tea demitasse cup and saucer 'Toscana' by designer Richard Ginori, circa mid-20th century, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Country Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
László Jurcsák for Hollohaza Large Porcelain Vase
Located in Delft, NL
László Jurcsák for hollohaza large porcelain vase, Hungary 1982-1992
A Hungarian porcelain vase of 24 cm high. White porcelain with black pain...
Category
20th Century Hungarian Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Japanese Satsuma
Moriage
Porcelain Gilt Vases
By Satsuma
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
This handsome pair of 20th century glazed and gilded Japanese Satsuma vases, with their vivid, jewel-like colours and elegant baluster-shaped forms, feature the traditional Japanese ...
Category
20th Century Japanese Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Mediterraneo, Six Contemporary Porcelain Dinner Plates with Decorative Design
By Vito Nesta
Located in Milano, Lombardia
The Mediterraneo collection is the result of Vito Nesta’s reflection on the line between reality and fantasy. The architectures of the doors depicted on the plates arise from technic...
Category
2010s Italian Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$457 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Porcelain KPM Berlin Vase Designed by Margarete Friedlaender
Located in Vienna, AT
Buttle-shaped white porcelain with glossy glaze, designed by Margarete Friedlaender in the 1950s.
Category
1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Italian Ceramic Fruit Basket, Mid 20th Century
Located in Miklavž Pri Taboru, SI
Beautiful vintage ceramic fruit basket from in Italy in the mid 20th century.
Cherry, banana, apple, pear, plum are shiny and look yummy ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Pottery
Republic Period Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Vase with Poetic Warrior Scene
Located in East Quogue, NY
A finely hand-painted mid-20th century Chinese porcelain vase decorated in vibrant famille rose enamels. One side depicts a lively equestrian scene of a warrior and attendant restrai...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique French Sèvres Style Porcelain Ormolu Gilt Bronze Dore Vase Centerpiece
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stunning imposing Pair of French Sevres Style Soft Paste Porcelain and Ormolu Twin Handle Electric Table Lamps of traditional bulbous form, and of good size proportions, raised on a ...
Category
19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
French Limoges Gold Gilt Porcelain Coffee Tea Dessert Service for Six
By Limoges
Located in Barcelona, ES
Limoges Porcelain gold gilt coffee set + bread and butter plates for six. France, 1930s.
The set is comprised by 6 coffee or tea cups, 6 saucers...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Revival Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
White Porcelain Vintage Industrial Clear Glass Brass Wall Lamp Sconces
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Porcelain industrial wall lamp.
White porcelain, cast iron, brass and clear glass.
2 conductors, no ground.
Diameter wall mount 10.5 cm / 4”.
2 holes to secure.
For use inside only...
Category
Mid-20th Century Dutch Industrial Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Brass, Iron
Italian Delfts Blue and White Chinoiserie Porcelain Ginger Jar by Ardalt
By Ardalt
Located in Elkhart, IN
A beautiful Delft Chinoiserie style blue and white porcelain covered ginger jar or temple jar
By Ardalt Blue Delfia
Italy, Mid-20th Century
Measures: 5.25ʺW × 5.25ʺD × 9.5ʺH.
Ver...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Chinoiserie Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Porcelain Small Knob Vase with the "Ming Dragon" Motif
Located in Delft, NL
Meissen porcelain small knob vase with the "Ming Dragon" motif
Meissen Porcelain Ming Dragon yellow small knob vase. The rims are gilded. A small vase raised on a foot with a belly and a knob in the neck with a tapered end with Meissen's “Ming Dragon” motif. This pattern, which is one of the manufactory’s earliest designs, was created in in 1740. The figure of the dragon with four toes, which is the representation typically used at Meissen, was originally reserved exclusively for imperial princes in ancient China.
The yellow Dragon...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Inspired Handcrafted Fluted Farmhouse Porcelain Pendant Light
By DBO Home
Located in Sharon, CT
Classic, elegant, with a perfectly imperfect touch. We just love our new porcelain Parasol Fluted Pendants. Inspired by a vintage pie cover, we designed th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Bohemian Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Brass
1662-1722 Chinese Kangxi Period, Blue and White Porcelain Plate
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Kangxi period, 1662-1722, blue & white porcelain plate, Chinese. Molded body with lotus petal reserves. The 8-flute molded sides surround a reserve of flowering plants growing from a...
Category
17th Century Chinese Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Pair Silver Plate Jasperware twin branch wall lights sconces 19thCentury
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning Antique pair of ormolu and porcelain two branch wall lights, Circa 1900 in date,
Of elegant classical form with a ribbon crest upturned reeded arms with acanthus ...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Silver, Ormolu
Bavaria Schumann, Cobalt Blue and Gold, Porcelain Jar with Lid Germany 1940s
Located in Bochum, NRW
Porcelain urn with lid, cobalt blue with two medallions hand painted floral décor, richly enhanced with 24K gold painted details. Made by Bavaria Schumann Arzberg, Germany 1960s. Mar...
Category
1940s German Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique French Sevres Porcelain Neoclassical 8 Piece Tete-A-Tete Tea Set 1900
Located in Portland, OR
A very fine antique eight piece 'Sevres' porcelain Tete-A-Tete tea service, Paris, circa 1900.
The set having a blue ground with finely hand-painted panels of Neoclassical scenes of...
Category
Early 1900s French Neoclassical Revival Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Anna Karlin Sketch Light - Small
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, Brass, Steel
$30,550 / item
Hand-Shaped Walnut Willow Floor Lamp with Copper Neck and Porcelain Shade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Willow floor lamp is a perfect combination of slender elegance and sheer mass. The hand-shaped black walnut base comes from a tree that fell from a neighbor on to the designer's ...
Category
2010s American Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Copper
Chinese Porcelain Ginger Jar - Qianlong Stamp
Located in Glasgow, GB
A vintage Chinese, cobalt blue ginger jar - circa 1970s - Qianlong Stamp
Decorated with hand-enamelled chinoiserie-style framed scenes to both ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Qing Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Enamel
$164 Sale Price
40% Off
Pair Chinese Republic Porcelain Panels, Scholars in Landscape, Inscribed
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair Chinese Republic Porcelain Panels, Scholars in Landscape, Inscribed
China, 20th Century
A beautiful pair of Chinese Republic period porcelain...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Brass
$2,384 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Chinese Warrior Vase Mounted as a Lamp Qing Dynasty famille Verte 19th Century
Located in Den Haag, NL
Porcelain Chinese warrior Vase Mounted as a Lamp. Qing Dynastie famille Verte, Approx late 19th Century
Category
1890s Chinese Qing Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Silk, Porcelain
19th Century Signed Meissen Porcelain Artwork
Located in Roma, IT
A wonderful late 19th-Century Meissen blue onion square hand painted porcelain dish.
Printed and impressed "Meissen" mark on reverse.
This fine blue onion platter exhibits excellen...
Category
Late 19th Century German Louis XV Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Qing Famille Rose Porcelain Trencher Salt
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish and delightful antique Chinese Qing famille rose porcelain trencher salt dating from the 18th century. The salt stands raised on a shaped r...
Category
18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Small Porcelain Blue Flowers Oyster Plate Limoges, circa 1900
By Limoges
Located in Austin, TX
Small Porcelain Blue Flowers Oyster Plate Limoges, circa 1900.
7.5 inches diameter.
Category
Early 1900s French Romantic Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain Parrot Figurine
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1920s German porcelain parrot figurine.
Measurements:
Height:11"
Width:6.25"(widest point)
Depth:7.5".
Category
1920s German Vintage Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Kawa Series Table Lamp 03, Organic Textured White Porcelain, Green Marble Base
By Luft Tanaka
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Kawa table lamp 03 by Luft Tanaka
A plug-in portable table lamp with a leather-cast porcelain diffuser, organic and asymmetrical in form, which casts a warm and comforting glow when ...
Category
2010s American Modern Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Marble, Stone, Brass, Steel
White Enamel Vintage Industrial Cast Iron Porcelain Opaline Glass Pendant Lights
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Porcelain industrial hanging lamp.
White porcelain, cast iron and opaline glass.
White enamel shade, porcelain base with cast iron top.
Round opaline glass.
Including 80" / 200 cm b...
Category
Mid-20th Century Hungarian Industrial Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Iron
Antique Pair Of Table Lamps Chinoiserie Porcelain Vases Newly Electrified
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Exceptional pair of Chinese table lamp hand painted on porcelain, beautiful colors of form of ceremony with families and there children in the garden , in The back is Chinese scrip...
Category
20th Century Chinese Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Metal
19th Century Satsuma Japanese Hand Painted Porcelain Tea or Coffee Set 15 Pieces
By Satsuma
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Beautiful hand painted and gold porcelain tea or coffee set Satsuma Japanese 15 pieces, 1880s. The service is complete to serve six people at the table includes: 1 teapot, 1 sugar bo...
Category
1880s Japanese Antique Porcelain Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
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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