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Sevres-Vincennes Vintage French Porcelain Coffee Set

Sevres-Vincennes Vintage French Porcelain Coffee Set

By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres

Located in Prato, Tuscany

We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects. Elega...

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By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres

Located in Paris, FR

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Located in GRENOBLE, FR

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19th Century Silver Mounted SèVres Style Porcelain Five-Piece Coffee Set

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Located in London, GB

Comprising a lidded coffee pot, two cups and saucers, a sugar bowl and a shaped tray, all with green ground and decorated with amorous couples or children with overlaid floral silver...

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Coffee set in porcelain 19th century - Sèvres Manufacture - signed SEVRES

Coffee set in porcelain 19th century - Sèvres Manufacture - signed SEVRES

By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres

Located in LA FERTÉ-SOUS-JOUARRE, FR

Set comprising a covered coffee pot, a milk jug, and two cups and their saucers Porcelain cup and saucer decorated with golden lambrequins on a midnight blue background.

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By Grainger Worcester

Located in London, GB

This is a beautiful orphaned coffee cup produced by Grainger & Co in Worcester in 1886, shortly before it merged with the Royal Worcester factory. The cup is decorated in a blue scal...

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Sèvres Porcelain for Ottoman, Turkish Islamic Market Coffee Set, 19th Century

Sèvres Porcelain for Ottoman, Turkish Islamic Market Coffee Set, 19th Century

By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres

Located in New York, NY

Beautifully hand-painted. Tray 11" diameter. Cups 3" diameter 1 1/2" high. Teapot 7 1/2 high. Creamer 4". Sugar bowl 4 "x 4" wide.  

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With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the sevres coffee set you’re looking for. Each sevres coffee set for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using ceramic, porcelain and paper. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect sevres coffee set — we have versions that date back to the 19th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. When you’re browsing for the right sevres coffee set, those designed in Art Deco, Georgian and Louis XVI styles are of considerable interest. Many designers have produced at least one well-made sevres coffee set over the years, but those crafted by Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres and Minton are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

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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.

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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.