Chinese Export Dinner Plates
CHINESE EXPORT STYLE
Expanded trade between Europe and East Asia, starting in the 16th century, led to a booming market for exported goods, particularly furniture. This was bolstered by the establishment of the Dutch and English East India Companies at the beginning of the 17th century. From folding screens and chairs to lacquer tables and silver, Chinese Export furniture was in demand and regularly copied and imitated, leading to styles like chinoiserie and Chinese Chippendale.
The expansion of exporting that had strengthened the arts during the Ming dynasty continued into the Qing dynasty era — Chinese designers made many furniture pieces specifically for export, resulting in distinctive designs that mixed traditional techniques with forms appealing to foreign buyers. For instance, cabinetmakers in Canton (modern-day Guangzhou) were prolific in crafting hardwood furniture for export in European styles that involved the expert joinery techniques of Chinese furniture. Designs for Chinese Export porcelain, cabinets, decorative objects and other furniture were often more ornately adorned than they would be for a local audience, such as with mother-of-pearl overlays or surfaces featuring lavish pictorial scenes or gold on black motifs. Some were even commissioned by wealthy European families to be adorned with their coat of arms.
Because lacquer furniture was especially prized, and the resin used to create it was difficult to import as it would harden during the long voyage, artisans in China and Japan exported numerous lacquer pieces. Long before lacquer made its way to Japan, the Chinese treated the material differently. They used it to create smooth, glossy surfaces, but also for carving, an art that began in the 12th century and is exclusively Chinese. These pieces are called cinnabar lacquer after the powdered mercury sulfide (cinnabar) employed to produce their characteristic red hue. A popular form for export was a compact cabinet with drawers, usually displayed on a small table. Undecorated furniture built in Europe was also shipped to China to be lacquered. The international exchange of design would influence furniture into the 19th century and later, informing styles such as Art Deco and Art Nouveau.
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Style: Chinese Export
Set of 4 Chinese Export Porcelain Plates with Floral Decoration & Armorial Crest
Located in Atlanta, GA
Set of 4 Chinese Export Porcelain Plates with Floral Decoration & Armorial Crest, ca. 1760
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Chinese Plate or Dish Blue & White, Qing Qianlong, Circa 1745
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very good Chinese porcelain circular deep plate or dish, made for the export (Canton) market, which we date towards the end of the first half of the 18th century, in the ea...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Antique Chinese Export Armorial Blue & White Dinner Plates 11"
Located in Dayton, OH
Pair of 18th century Chinese Export porcelain plates featuring slightly scalloped edges, hand painted blue and white borders and armorial crest / coat of arms at the center. Includes...
Category
18th Century Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Pronk La Dame au Parasol Plate
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Pronk La Dame au Parasol Plate
Circa 1740
This Chinese Export Porcelain Plate, Circa 1740, is decorated after a design by Cor...
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1740s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Armorial En Grisaille Soup Plates
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Armorial En Grisaille Soup Plates,
Pair,
Circa 1745
Chinese Export porcelain armorial en grisaille services are unusual to find. This striking pair of soup...
Category
1740s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese 19th Century Scalloped Imari Porcelain Dish or Charger
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Japanese Dish or Charger, made in Japan at the beginning of the 19th century. With beautiful colors in red blue and white. The Item is in good condition.
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese 19th Century Scalloped Imari Porcelain Dish or Charger
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Japanese Dish or Charger, made in Japan at the beginning of the 19th century. With beautiful colors in red blue and white. The Item is in good condition.
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese 19th Century Scalloped Imari Porcelain Dish or Charger
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Japanese Dish or Charger, made in Japan at the beginning of the 19th century. With beautiful colors in red blue and white. The Item is in good condition.
Category
19th Century Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Pair, Chinese Export ‘Yonge’ Armorial Porcelain Soup Plates Yongzheng Circa 1731
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair, Chinese Export ‘Yonge’ Armorial Porcelain Soup Plates Yongzhen or Yongzheng Circa 1731.
“Pair of Export Porcelain Armorial Soup Plates, China, c. 1731, centering the arms of Y...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Enamel
Pair Chinese Export Porcelain Permbridge Armorial Plates, mid 18th c, China
Located in Austin, TX
A lovely pair of Chinese export famille rose enameled porcelain armorial plates, mid 18th century, China.
The plates of unusual octagonal form with scalloped corners. The center of ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century, Chinese Plate or Bowl Blue & White, Qing Qianlong, Circa 1770
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a good Chinese porcelain circular deep plate or soup bowl made for the export (Canton) market, during the middle of the 18th century, Qing-Qianlong period.
The plate is we...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Chinese Export Yongzheng Famille Rose Plates, circa 1730, China
Located in Austin, TX
A gorgeous pair of 18th century Chinese Export porcelain plates decorated in stunning famille rose enamels, Yongzheng Period, circa 1730, China.
The small plates decorated in bright and bold famille rose enamels, with pink dominating the color palette. The center of the plates featuring large floral sprays featuring magnolia and peony blossoms among other flowering plants. The rims of the plates with alternating half blossoms of pink magnolia and pink lotus against a dense diaper ground.
Gilt painted ribbons scroll around the rim and down the cavetto, holding peaches and Daosit emblems, including castanets, a flute, a drum, and a ruyi scepter...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Famille Rose Botanical Large Plates, Set of Six
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Famille Rose Botanical Large Plates,
Set of Six Large Plates or Dishes,
Circa 1760
The Chinese Export famille rose plates are molded in the form of a Europe...
Category
1760s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Chinese Export Porcelain Plate
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This is a plate from China, it has been made late 19th century, very nice colors, black, brown blue. It is a canton plate.
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese 19th Century Scalloped Imari Porcelain vase Mejii Period
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Japanese Vase, made in Japan at the beginning of the 19th century. Mejii Period With beautiful colors in red blue and white. The vase is in good condition.
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Yongzheng Chinese Export Porcelain Armorial Plate with Arms of Gresley
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Armorial Porcelain Plate,
Arms of Gresley Quarterly with Bowyer in Pretence,
Yongzheng Period,
1735
This u...
Category
1730s Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Yongzheng Chinese Export Porcelain Plate with Arms of Elwick of Middlesex
Located in Downingtown, PA
Early 18th Century Yongzheng Period Chinese Export Porcelain Plate,
Arms of Elwick of Middlesex,
John Elwick of Mile End in Middlesex and of Cornhill in the City of London,
Circa 1730
This rare Chinese Export armorial plate is painted with the coat of arms of Elwick of Middlesex in the center within a panel reserved against an en grisaille Chinese...
Category
1720s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Japanse Plates
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Pair of Japanese porcelain plates. The colors are blue, pink and green. They were made in Japan in the 19th century.
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Chinese Export Canton Porcelain Plate
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This is a plate from china, it has been made late 19th century, very nice colors, green, orange blue. It is a canton plate.
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Japonese Plate Famille Rose Meiji Period, Japan 1830
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This plate is a japanese place in porcelain. Made in Japan circa 1830, during the Meiji period. Representing a lady and a child. With colored enamaled porcelain, decorations.
Category
1830s Japanese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Famille Rose Medallion Reticulated Pierced Circle Rim Plate
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A Chinese Export or Canton porcelain plate in the Rose Medallion style, circa 1820.
Dating to the later period of the Qing Dynasty, the plate...
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Blue and White Porcelain After Maria Sybille Merian
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese export porcelain blue and white porcelain plates,
After Maria Sybille Merian,
Pronk Workshop Design,
Dutch Market,
Circa 1740-45
A pair of blue and white plates with a design after Maria Sybille Merian, probably from the Pronk workshop. The Chinese export underglaze blue porcelain...
Category
Mid-18th Century Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Large 18th Century Chinese Export Armorial Charger
Located in Dallas, TX
An impressive 18th century Chinese export armorial charger. Crest in center of plate with floral sprays around the border. Decorative bands around of plate and the rim. White backgro...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Nine Blue Onion Meissen Show or Wall Plates
Located in Stamford, CT
Nine blue onion Meissen show or wall plates. This is a stunning collection of blue white wall platters purchased from a NYC Socialite at the Beekman on the East side of Manhattan. Th...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
2 Antique 18th Century Chinese Export Qianlong Famille Dinner Charger Plates
Located in Dayton, OH
Pair of antique late 18th century to early 19th century Chinese export Qing (Qianlong Period, circa 1780) porcelain dinner plates with hand painted famille and lattice motifs. Measur...
Category
Late 18th Century Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Porcelain Dish
Located in Brea, CA
19th century Chinese porcelain dish with beautiful hand painted. Diameter 12.4 inch, with a mark.
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Early English William Whiteley Ltd of London Ironstone Imari Plates, S/10
Located in Kennesaw, GA
This is a lovely set of early 20th century English ironstone Imari plates by William Whitely Ltd. of London. There are no chips or cracks, and ...
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Early 20th Century English Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Ironstone
Pair of Chinese Export Famille Rose Dessert Plates circa 1750
Located in Katonah, NY
We are pleased to offer this pair of Chinese export Famille Rose dessert plates with sprays of delicately painted flowers in purple and pink surrounding a bouquet of tulips and peoni...
Category
1750s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Pair of Chinese Porcelain Fruit Dishes
Located in Brea, CA
19th century a pair of large Chinese porcelain fruit dishes with beautiful hand painted. Measures: 8.5 x 6.25 x 2 inch.
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 8 Chamberlain's Worcester Regent Dessert or Salad Plates
Located in New York, NY
A set of eight (8) Chamberlin's Worcester boldly-colored porcelain dessert or salad plates in the Japan Imari pattern #982. England, 1820. Signed with hand applied mark.
A rare and...
Category
19th Century English Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Three 18th Century Chinese Export Plates
Located in Buchanan, MI
Set of three Chinese export plates with floral decoration. Three 18th century Chinese exprort plates.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Chinese Antique Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export dinner plates for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Chinese Export dinner plates for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Early 20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage dinner plates created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, asian art and furniture and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with ceramic, porcelain and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Chinese Export dinner plates made in a specific country, there are Asia, East Asia, and China pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original dinner plates, popular names associated with this style include CANTON FAMILLE ROSE, Meissen Porcelain, and Royal Worcester. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for dinner plates differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $300 and tops out at $38,500 while the average work can sell for $1,111.
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