Antique Sevres Style Paris Porcelain Gilt Tea Cup Saucer Alexander Great Dante
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An exceptional French Paris porcelain tea cup complete with its original undertray, of outstanding quality. First quarter of the nineteenth century. Exquisitely painted with Class...
Ceramic, Porcelain
Juego de café, porcelana esmaltada Royal Vienna, siglo XIX
Located in MADRID, ES
Juego de café Tú y Yo. Porcelana esmaltada. Royal Vienna, Austria, circa 1890, con bonitas escenas mitológicas pintadas a mano y marcas en la base de las piezas. Se compone de una g...
Porcelain
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H 4.53 in W 2.56 in D 6.01 in
Antique Austrian Royal Vienna Sevres Style Chocolate Tea Cup Saucer Cobalt Blue
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An exceptional Vienna Porcelain hand decorated chocolate cup with cover and circular stand of outstanding workmanship, of cylindrical form with bracket handle, circa last quarter of ...
Ormolu
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H 3.55 in W 5.12 in D 5.12 in
Antique Austrian Royal Vienna Sevres Style Chocolate Tea Cup Saucer Cobalt Blue
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An exceptional Vienna porcelain hand decorated miniature chocolate cup with cover and circular stand of exhibition quality, of cylindrical form with bracket handle, circa last quarte...
Ormolu
Antique Czech Classical Pictorial and Gilt Royal Vienna Porcelain Tea Set
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Czechoslovakian hand-painted and gilt pictorial porcelain Royal Vienna eight piece tea set features reserves of Classical mythological scenes with heavy gilt decoration and i...
Porcelain
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H 2.37 in W 5.52 in D 5.52 in
Austrian Royal Vienna Mythological Themed Angelica Kauffman Tea Cup Saucer 19ct
By Angelica Kauffmann
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An Exceptionally Fine Set of TEN Austrian Royal Vienna Porcelain comprising of ten tea cups complete with their original saucers, third quarter of the Nineteenth Century.
Porcelain
Antique Royal Vienna Style Porcelain Tea Coffee Set on Tray
By Moritz Zdekauer Austria
Located in Austin, TX
A rare porcelain demitasse coffee set on the tray featuring dreamy portraits of Victorian era ladies. The tray has one large center portrait and four smaller portrait vignettes at th...
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H 6.5 in W 9.5 in D 6 in
Worlds Most Beautiful Tea Set Royal Vienna Style with Portraits circa 1900
Located in Redding, CA
This is it the worlds most beautiful tea set in Vienna style with portraits and the most incredible raised paste gilding, and to top it off the root beer color of the iridescent g...
Royal Vienna Covered Can and Saucer with Mythological Subject, 19th Century
Located in Redding, CA
A wonderful example of Royal Vienna porcelain, a covered can and saucer Beautifully painted with a mythological subject matter, several different glaze colors are found as well as ...
Vienna Soft Paste Gilt Porcelain Tea Cup with Saucer, Early 19th Century
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in Brussels, BE
Soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer. Provenance: Vienna, Austria. Period: Early 19th century. Medium: Porcelain. Dimensions: Height (cup) 4.5 cm, Ø (cup) - 7 cm, Ø (saucer) 12 cm.
Porcelain
$32,183Sale Price|20% Off
H 10.6 in W 15.7 in D 9.8 in
18th Century Sterling Silver Soup Tureen Hammered Italian Venice Rococo
By Charles Nicolas Odiot
Located in Wommelgem, VAN
Impressive Antique Georgian Italian Sterling Silver soup tureen Style & period Rococo, Georgian, Antique, Italian, Venice Design: Italian The fine hand crafted hammered body stan...
Sterling Silver
Extensive English Porcelain Dessert Service, circa 1825
Located in New York, NY
Pair of covered fruit coolers, pair of covered sauce tureens, pair of open work baskets, 1 compote, 4 kidney-shaped dishes, pair of square dishes, pair of oval dishes, 16 plates.
Porcelain
English Scenic Porcelain Dessert Service, Mid-19th Century
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
English Scenic porcelain Dessert service, mid-19th century, polychrome hand-painted with three various romantic landscape scenes in a round cartouches on a pink border, decorated wit...
Porcelain
French Epinal Porcelain Tea Set, Rovina V.S., Hand-Painted Roses
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
This elegant French porcelain tea service, signed Rovina V.S. Épinal, is a refined example of early 20th-century decorative craftsmanship. Produced in the Épinal region, known for it...
Porcelain, Paint
Antique Meissen Porcelain Floral Encrusted Tea Cup & Saucer
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Atlanta, GA
Meissen, Germany, late 19th to early 20th century Hard-paste porcelain, hand-painted with polychrome enamels and gilt accents, applied porcelain flowers, five small knop feet. ...
Porcelain
Meissen Porcelain Pot-Pourri Vase, Germany, 19th Century
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Meissen porcelain pot-pourri vase, Germany, 19th century.
Porcelain
$1,600 / set
H 0.75 in Dm 9 in
Set of Six Antique 19th Century English Blue and White Porcelain Plates
Located in New Orleans, LA
Set of six antique 19th century english blue and white porcelain plates.
Porcelain
Set of 12 English Porcelain Plates, Coalbrookdale, circa 1850
Located in New York, NY
Set of 12 English porcelain plates, Coalbrookdale, circa 1850.
Porcelain
$10,243 / set
H 4.73 in Dm 9.45 in
Antique English Sixteen-Piece Dessert Service by Royal Crown Derby Porcelain
By Royal Crown Derby Porcelain
Located in London, GB
This splendid antique dessert service is impressive both for its beautiful design and its prestigious maker, Royal Crown Derby Porcelain, which was appointed the official royal porce...
Porcelain
$75,000 / set
H 1.25 in Dm 8.5 in
English Chamberlain Worcester Porcelain Part Dessert Service, circa 1815
Located in New York, NY
Comprising footed compote, pair of covered sauce tureens, one gallery (partially restored), pair of lozenge-shaped dishes, pair of kidney-shaped dishes, four shell dishes, four squar...
Porcelain
Rare & Early Jupe Expanding Dining Table by Johnstone & Jeanes
By Johnstone, Jeanes & Co.
Located in London, GB
A Rare 'Jupe's' Extensible Mechanical Action Circular Dining Table By Johnstone & Jeanes of New Bond Street Together with its original Leaf Cabinet By Johnstone & Jeanes Constructe...
Mahogany
Meissen Porcelain Revelry Groups
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in New Orleans, LA
This charming pair of Meissen porcelain figures celebrates the essence of Revelry. First modeled by the renowned Johann Joachim Kändler on bases by Peter Reinicke, circa 1767, these ...
Porcelain
$95,800
H 15.5 in W 13.5 in D 6.5 in
Important Meissen Porcelain Groups of Caparisoned Elephants and Soldiers
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in New York, NY
An important pair of Meissen Porcelain Groups depicting "Alexander The Great Concurring India". Modeled with Alexander the great's three warriors/soldiers riding on caparisoned eleph...
Porcelain
$7,524
H 6.11 in W 20.87 in D 17.72 in
Large Sèvres Porcelain Tea Service, 19th Century, Napoleon III Period.
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Important Sèvres porcelain tea service, 19th century, Napoleon III period. 19th century tea service, Napoleon III period, in Sèvres porcelain, in its box. Box: H: 15.5 cm, W: 53 cm...
Porcelain
Antique " KPM " Empire Porcelain Cup
By Kerafina Royal Porzellan KPM
Located in Kastrup, DK
KPM Porcelain cup decorated with a finely hand painted depiction of two women in nature. Inside with gilding (light wear to the gilding). KPM (Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin...
Porcelain
$1,650
H 1 in Dm 9.63 in
Signed Royal Vienna Porcelain Portrait Cabinet Plate with Platinum & Raised Gold
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine, signed Art Nouveau porcelain cabinet plate. By Royal Vienna. Signed Wagner to the lower right. With a hand painted depiction of Ruth to the center surrounded by a bl...
Porcelain
Today you’re likely to bring out your antique and vintage porcelain in order to dress up your dining table for a special meal.
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.
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. 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.
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. While it is tempting to store your porcelain behind closed glass cabinet doors and reserve it only for display, your porcelain dinner plates and serving platters can safely weather the “dangers” of the dining room and be used during meals.
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.
On 1stDibs, browse an expansive collection of antique and vintage porcelain made in a variety of styles, including Regency, Scandinavian modern and other examples produced during the mid-century era, plus Rococo, which found its inspiration in nature and saw potters crafting animal figurines and integrating organic motifs such as floral patterns in their work.
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