French Porcelain Six Well ‘Eyes’ Oyster Plate
By Limoges
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A French porcelain oyster plate, circa 1890 – 1910. Six shell shaped oyster wells with multicolored, hand painted ‘eyes’ surrounding a central, round sauce well, outlined in gold. ...
Porcelain
French Porcelain Six Well ‘Eyes’ Oyster Plate
By Limoges
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A French porcelain oyster plate, circa 1890 – 1910. Six shell shaped oyster wells with multicolored, hand painted ‘eyes’ surrounding a central, round sauce well, outlined in gold. ...
Porcelain
Antique 19th Century French Limoges Porcelain Floral Oyster Plate
By Limoges
Located in Pearland, TX
A gorgeous antique French Limoges porcelain oyster plate, circa 1880.
Porcelain
Antique 19th Century French Limoges Porcelain Floral Oyster Plate
By Limoges
Located in Pearland, TX
A gorgeous antique French Limoges porcelain oyster plate, circa 1880.
Porcelain
Antique French Haviland Limoges Porcelain Turkey Pattern Oyster Plate Circa 1880
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Haviland Limoges porcelain turkey pattern oyster plate, circa 1880.
Porcelain
Antique French Limoges Porcelain Sienna Red and Gold Oyster Plate, Circa 1900.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French porcelain oyster plate, signed "H.
Porcelain
Antique French C.F.H. Limoges Porcelain Sea-Life Painted Oyster Plate Circa 1890
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French "Charles Field Haviland" Limoges porcelain oyster plate with sea life, circa 1890's.
Porcelain
Set Of Seven Antique French Porcelain Oyster Plates
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Set of 7 early antique Limoges French hand painted oyster plates.
Porcelain
Antique French Limoges Oyster Plate
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Limoges Oyster Plate, over 100 years old
Porcelain
Antique French Limoges Oyster Plate, c. 1890-1900s
By Haviland & Co.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Limoges Oyster Plate, Made for Maple Co.
Porcelain
Antique French Limoges Oyster Plate, c. 1900, signed "Tressemaines and Vogt"
By Tressemanes & Vogt
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Limoges Oyster Plate, Colbalt blue, c. 1900, signed "Tressemaines and Vogt"
Porcelain
Antique French Limoges Oyster Plate
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Haviland Limoges Oyster Plate, Cobalt Blue, c. 1890's
Porcelain
Antique French Limoges Oyster Plate
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Hand Painted Limoges Oyster Plate
Antique French Limoges Oyster Plate Made for Tressemanes & Vogt, circa 1880
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French hand-painted Limoges porcelain oyster plate made for Tressemanes & Vogt, circa 1880.
Antique Limoges Oyster Plate
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Limoges oyster plate.
Antique French Oyster Plate
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Limoges Oyster Plate, Over 100 Years Old
Porcelain
Antique French Oyster Plate
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Limoges Oyster Plate, Hand-painted, signed T.V.Co, c.1900
Antique Oyster Plate
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Limoges Oyster Plate Handpainted circa 1900
Antique Oyster Plate
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Limoges Oyster Plate Handpainted circa 1880-1890
Antique Oyster Plate
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Limoges oyster plate hand painted sea scape.
Antique French Oyster Plate
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Limoges Oyster Plate, signed L.Bernard Co., made Higgins and Seiter, New York, c. 1900
Porcelain
Antique Oyster Plate
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Limoges Oyster Plate by Elite Works Unusual Design
Antique Oyster Plate
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Limoges Oyster Plate made for Lewis Straus and Son New York
ique French Oyster Plate
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Limoges Oyster Plate, Hand-painted, T.V.Co, c.1900
Porcelain
French Oyster Plate Porcelain Sealife Haviland Limoges
By Haviland & Co.
Located in Austin, TX
Antique 19th-century French porcelain oyster plate with sealife pattern (shells, seaweeds, fish) signed Limoges Haviland & C.
Porcelain
French Haviland Limoges Porcelain Hand Painted Crab & Turtle Oyster Plate
By Haviland & Co.
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A porcelain Oyster plate with six shell shaped wells, each showing a hand painted sea life specimen including a crab and a turtle. A central sauce well shows a sprig of a green sea p...
Porcelain
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H 0.75 in Dm 7.75 in
French Gutherz Limoges Porcelain Hand Painted Sea Green & Shells Oyster Plate
By Oscar Gutherz
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A French, eight sided porcelain oyster plate showing five oyster shell shaped wells with eyes and a pink scallop shell sauce well.
Porcelain
French Gutherz Limoges Porcelain Hand Painted Pink and Shells Oyster Plate
By Oscar Gutherz
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A French, eight sided porcelain oyster plate showing five oyster shell shaped wells with eyes and a scallop shell sauce well.
Porcelain
Sold
H 0.75 in Dm 7.75 in
French Gutherz Limoges Porcelain Hand Painted Mint Green & Shells Oyster Plate
By Oscar Gutherz
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A French, eight sided porcelain oyster plate showing five oyster shell shaped wells with eyes and a pink scallop shell sauce well.
Porcelain
Oyster Plate by Limoges France, Scalloped Shape and Hand Painted Gold
By Charles Ahrenfeldt
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A Classic and elegant antique oyster plate featuring a master well in the center and places for six oysters. Custom ordered and retailed through the Fine firm of William Junor, Toron...
Gold
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H 0.75 in Dm 7.75 in
French Gutherz Limoges Porcelain Hand Painted Sky Blue and Shells Oyster Plate
By Oscar Gutherz
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A French, eight sided porcelain oyster plate showing five oyster shell shaped wells with eyes and a yellow scallop shell sauce well.
Porcelain
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H 0.75 in Dm 8.75 in
French Haviland Limoges Porcelain Hand-Painted Sea Anemone and Fish Oyster Plate
By Haviland & Co.
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A porcelain oyster plate with six shell shaped wells, each showing a hand painted sea life specimen including a leaping fish and a sea anemone. A central sauce well shows a sprig of ...
Porcelain
French Oyster Plate Porcelain With boats Limoges
By Limoges
Located in Austin, TX
Antique 19th century French porcelain oyster plate with boats Limoges.
Porcelain
French Oyster Plate Porcelain Sealife Haviland Limoges
By Limoges
Located in Austin, TX
Antique 19th-Century French porcelain oyster plate with sealife pattern (shells, seaweeds, starfish, fishs ) signed Limoges Haviland & C.
Porcelain
Antique French Limoges Porcelain Turkey Pattern Oyster Plate, circa 1880s
By Limoges
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Limoges Porcelain Turkey pattern oyster plate, circa 1880s.
Porcelain
Antique French Limoges Porcelain Turkey Pattern Oyster Plate, circa 1890s
By Limoges
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Limoges porcelain Turkey pattern oyster plate circa 1890s in hand painted colors of red burgundy, brown, and gold.
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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