Regency Dinner Plates
REGENCY STYLE
Like France’s Empire style, Regency-style furniture was rooted in neoclassicism; the characteristics of its bedroom furniture, armchairs, dining room tables and other items include clean lines, angular shapes and elegant details.
Dating roughly from the 1790s to 1830s, antique Regency-style furniture gets its name from Prince George of Wales — formally King George IV — who became Prince Regent in 1811 after his father, George III, was declared unfit to rule. England’s Regency style is one of the styles represented in Georgian furniture.
George IV’s arts patronage significantly influenced the development of the Regency style, such as the architectural projects under John Nash, which included the renovation of Buckingham House into the formidable Buckingham Palace with a grand neoclassical facade. Celebrated designers of the period include Thomas Sheraton, Henry Holland and Thomas Hope. Like Nash, Hope instilled his work with classical influences, such as saber-legged chairs based on the ancient Greek klismos. He is credited with introducing the term “interior decoration” to English with the 1807 publishing of Household Furniture and Interior Decoration.
Although more subdued than previous styles like Rococo and Baroque, Regency interiors incorporated copious use of chintz fabrics and wallpaper adorned in chinoiserie-style art. Its furniture featured fine materials and luxurious embellishments. Furniture maker George Bullock, for instance, regularly used detailed wood marquetry and metal ornaments on his pieces.
Archaeological discoveries in Egypt and Greece informed Regency-era details, such as carved scrollwork, sphinxes and palmettes, as well as the shape of furniture. A Roman marble cinerary chest, for example, would be reinterpreted into a wooden cabinet. The Napoleonic Wars also inspired furniture, with martial designs like tented beds and camp-style chairs becoming popular. While the reddish-brown mahogany was prominent in this range of pieces, imported woods like zebrawood and ebony were increasingly in demand.
Find a collection of antique Regency tables, seating, decorative objects and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Regency
Machin Set of 6 Plates, Moustache Shape, White with Flowers, ca 1825
By Machin
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful set of 6 dessert plates made by Machin around 1825, which is known as the Regency period. The items have the famous "moustache" moulding picked out in gilt, a sim...
Category
1820s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Wonderful Service 12 Selb Bavaria Heinrich & Co Gold Encrusted Dinner Plates
Located in Roslyn, NY
A Wonderful Service Of 12 Selb Bavaria Heinrich & Co Gold Encrusted Dinner Plates
Category
20th Century German Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Coalport Porcelain Plate, White with Handpainted Flowers, Regency ca 1820
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful plate made by Coalport around the year 1820. The plate is decorated in white with a simple gilt rim, darting puce and gilt vines, and a wonderful hand painted bou...
Category
1820s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Coalport John Rose Porcelain Plate, Cobalt Blue, Gilt, Flowers & Fruits, 1805-15
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning plate made by John Rose at Coalport between 1805 and 1815. The plate is decorated in underglaze cobalt blue and has beautifully hand painted flowers and fruits, an...
Category
1810s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Plate, Melted Snow Border, Periwinkle Blue Lilac, Flowers, ca 1822
Located in London, GB
A plate with white melted snow border on a periwinkle ground with tiny gilt stars, with a beautifully painted flower bouquet in the centre
There are several other items available in...
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1820s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Barr Flight & Barr Part Dessert Service, Flowers by William Billingsley, 1808-10
By Barr, Flight & Barr Worcester, William Billingsly
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning part dessert service made by Barr Flight & Barr in Worcester, and painted with naturalistic flowers by William Billingsley between 1808 and 1810. The service consists of one deep central oval dish, four slightly smaller oval dishes, two round one-handled dishes, and six plates.
Provenance: The Charles Dawson Collection. One of the items has a label of the London Ceramic...
Category
Early 1800s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Chamberlain Worcester Porcelain Tree of Life Set of Twelve Dinner Plates
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chamberlain Worcester Porcelain Set of Twelve Dinner Plates,
Tree of Life Pattern,
Circa 1818-1822
The Chamberlain Worcester porcelain Tree of Life dinner plates are painted in an ornate and colorful pattern known as the " Tree of Life" pattern. The Japan pattern design depicts a central tree in an underglaze blue with a cracked ice design issuing extensive branches, flowers and leaves across the surface.
Note we also have a soup tureen and stand and a pair of sauce tureens and stands in this pattern.
Dimensions: 9-5/8 inch diameter x 1 1/4 inches high.
Mark: Some with a n red below a crown: Chamberlains...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Flight Barr & Barr Porcelain Dessert Plate, Rich Imari, Regency, circa 1815
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning dessert plate made by Flight Barr & Barr around the year 1815. It is decorated with what is often called the "Rich Imari" pattern, and sometimes the "crazy Japan" ...
Category
1810s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Dessert Service for 12, Cobalt Blue, Gilt and Flowers ca 1822
Located in London, GB
A magnificent large complete dessert service consisting of a high footed centre piece, four rectangular dishes, four oval dishes, three leaf dishes, two sauce tureens with covers and...
Category
1820s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Edward Challinor Pearlware Plate, Blue and White "Death of a Bear", circa 1850
By Spode
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful dinner plate made in about 1850 by Edward Challinor. The plate is made of pearlware and decorated with a blue and white transfer print that is a close copy of Spode' famous "Indian...
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1850s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Pearlware
Wedgwood Imari Scalloped Edge Dessert Plate
By Wedgwood
Located in Stamford, CT
Single Wedgwood scalloped edge dessert plate. Raised scalloped gold rimmed edge. Stamped Wedgwood on the underside.
Category
1960s English Vintage Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Spode Felspar Porcelain Plate, Landscape Painting, Regency ca 1822
By Spode
Located in London, GB
This is a dessert plate made by Spode in about 1822, which was the Regency era. The plate is made of Felspar porcelain and decorated with a beautiful hand painted landscape scene. The plate would have belonged to a large dessert service of which each piece had a unique landscape; in fact I sold a dessert service in this pattern a while ago.
Spode was the great pioneer among the Georgian potters in England. Around the year 1800 he perfected the bone china recipe that has been used by British potters ever since, and he was also the leading potter behind the technique of transferware, making it possible for English potters to replace the Chinese export china...
Category
1820s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
H & R Daniel Dessert Service, Floral with Lilac Sprigging, Regency, 1824
By H&R Daniel
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning dessert service made by H&R Daniel in 1824. The set consists of a large centre piece comport, two sauce comports (without covers), four large rectangular dishes, f...
Category
1820s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Machin Part Dessert Service, Moustache Shape, Cobalt Blue and Flowers, ca 1825
By Machin
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful part dessert service made by Machin around 1825, which is known as the Regency period. The items have the famous "moustache" moulding, a beautiful cobalt blue gro...
Category
1820s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Ridgway Porcelain Plate, Green with Hand Painted Flowers, Regency ca 1825
Located in London, GB
This is a very beautiful plate made by Ridgway around 1825, which is known as the Regency period. The plate has a deep green ground and hand painted flowers, and would have formed pa...
Category
1820s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
H&R Daniel Plate, White, Floral, Etruscan Shape, Regency, circa 1825
By H&R Daniel
Located in London, GB
This is a rare and beautiful cake plate made by H&R Daniel in about 1825. The plate is potted in the square "Etruscan" shape and is decorated in a white ground with a beautiful floral pattern and gilt anthemion sprigs.
The plate formed part of a large tea service; we also have a trio
The H & R Daniel porcelain factory was founded by Henry Daniel, son of a family of master colour makers. He headed up the decoration department in the famous Spode factory where he oversaw all the beautiful early Spode decorations. In 1822 he opened his own factory with his son Richard, creating a truly iconic body of work with the most subtle colours and beautifully painted flowers and landscapes.
The Daniel factory was the last true cottage industry among the English porcelain factories, resisting the increase of industrialisation and mass production. This resulted in extraordinary and unrivalled quality, but it probably also led to the factory having to close its doors in 1846 because it could no longer compete with others who did modernise. Daniel porcelain can be hard to identify as the factory was only around for about two decades, but this short duration and the low output also means that Daniel items have become true collectors' items.
The plate is unmarked except the faded pattern number 3863, which points to a date of 1825.
A picture of this pattern can be seen on plate 34 of Michael Berthoud and Lybne Price's "Daniel Patterns on Porcelain".
CONDITION REPORT The plate is in perfect antique condition except some very light rubbing as visible in the pictures.
Antique British porcelain...
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1820s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Set of Three Antique English Minton Plates, circa 1881
By Minton
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Set of three antique Minton English plates with chrysanthemum motif, yellow border, black trim. Retail shop stickers on verso.
Dimensions: 10" W
Condi...
Category
19th Century Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Spode Felspar Square Dessert Plate, Gilt and Flowers, Regency 1824
By Spode
Located in London, GB
This is beautiful square dessert plate made by Spode around the year 1824. The set was made in the famous Spode Felspar china, which was a bright porcelain that included felspar rock, making it exceptionally robust and very suitable for large table services. This plate was a spare of a large dessert service that was sold previously.
An identical service is on display in the Spode Museum in Stoke on Trent, on the original place where this service was produced. In a wonderful moment of serendipity, I happened to be standing and admiring that service exactly the moment the service this plate belonged to came up for auction - and I won the bid, enabling me to present it here to you!
Josiah Spode was the great pioneer among the 19th Century potters in England. Around the year 1800 he perfected the bone china recipe that has been used by everyone ever since, and he was also the leading potter behind perfecting the technique of transferware, making it possible for English potters to replace the Chinese export china, which had come to an end around that time, with their own. This was fundamental to a thriving industry that would last for about 150 years and provide half the world with their tableware. In the early 19th Century Spode also made this "Felspar" porcelain, which was even stronger thanks to a large percentage of the strong felspar rock in the recipe.
In the early 19th Century, dinner and dessert services were an important part of the social life of the elite, and particularly the dessert service had to be stunning in order to leave guests with a lasting impression of the wealth and power of the owner. This plate is part of such a show piece.
The plate has the printed Spode Felspar Porcelain mark in puce, as well as a hand painted pattern number 3765.
CONDITION REPORT The plate is in good undamaged antique condition, with its only flaw being some wear as visible in the pictures.
Antique British porcelain...
Category
1820s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 11 Early Spode Ironstone Imari Dessert Dishes Made circa 1815
By Spode
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A set of 11 Imari style ironstone dessert dishes, made by Spode circa 1815.
Josiah Spode II began producing stone china in 1813 as an alternative to porcelain. Stone china, also kno...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Ironstone
12 Antique Worcester Porcelain Dishes with Strawberries, Circa 1820
Located in Katonah, NY
This set of antique Flight Barr Barr Worcester dessert dishes are marked with an impressed crown over "FBB," showing that Flight Barr Barr was a purveyor to their Royal Majesties, the King and Queen of England.
Made in England circa 1820, they are decorated in Worcester's "Strawberry" pattern. The dishes are painted in rich gold with strawberries on the palest peach ground. The color is subtle, and the design is elegant. The combination is superb.
In the Regency period, the "Strawberry" pattern was the height of fashion for the table.
Dimensions: 8.25" diameter
Condition: Excellent
Price: $1200 for the dozen dishes
Background
Flight Barr Barr Worcester were manufacturers to their Majesties. According to the Worcester Porcelain Museum, "During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Chinese porcelain was a great status symbol. Worcester produced a great alternative, whiter with brighter colors and more readily available, becoming the height of fashion in the early 19th century. The customer accounts of this period would read like a 'who's who' of the day. Luxurious personalized services were made for the wealthiest customers, including Tzar Alexander I...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Flight Barr & Barr Dessert Service, Brown Vines and Berries, 1815-1820
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful and very rare dessert service made by Flight, Barr & Barr between 1815 and 1820. The service consists of a central comport, two sauce tureens with covers, a squar...
Category
1810s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Coalport Porcelain Plate, New Embossed Relief Moulded with Birds, Regency ca1815
Located in London, GB
This is a very rare and beautiful plate made by Coalport between 1815 and 1820. The plate is relief moulded in the "New Embossed" shape and has a fabulous pattern in cobalt blue, gil...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Porcelain Plate, Maroon with Flowers, Regency, ca 1825
Located in London, GB
This is a very striking and rare dessert plate made by Samuel Alcock around the year 1825. The plate is square and has the "inverted shell" moulding with pierced borders, a deep maro...
Category
1820s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Regency English Pottery Green-Glazed Leaf Plate, Brameld, Yorkshire
Located in Downingtown, PA
English pottery Green-glazed Leaf Plate,
Brameld, Yorkshire,
Circa 1820
The plate moulded in a spiral overlapping leaf design with a green glaze.
Mark: Impressed BRAMELD.
...
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Early 19th Century Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
Set Four Antique Porcelain Dishes Hand-Painted 18th Century England, circa 1790
By Derby
Located in Katonah, NY
This set of four hand-painted dishes were made by Derby in England late in the 18th century, circa 1790.
The border shows an exquisite wavy orange ribbon that opens and closes while ...
Category
Late 18th Century English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Coalport John Rose Porcelain Plate, White Floral Dulong Blind-Moulded circa 1815
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful dessert plate made by Coalport in circa 1815.
Coalport was one of the leading potters in 19th and 20th century Staffordshire. They worked alongside other great...
Category
1810s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Spode Creamware Dessert Service, Avocado Green, Chinoiserie, Regency, 1814
By Spode
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful Spode creamware dessert service made in 1814, which was the Regency era. The service is decorated in a printed and hand-colored Chi...
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1810s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Creamware
Regency English Pottery Green-glazed Leaf Plate, Brameld, Yorkshire
Located in Downingtown, PA
English pottery Green-glazed leaf Plate,
Attributed to Brameld, Yorkshire,
Circa 1820.
The plate is moulded in a spiral overlapping leaf design with a green glaze.
While unmarked, ...
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Early 19th Century Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
Chamberlain Worcester Porcelain "Crazy Cow" Pattern Six Plates, circa 1815-1820
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chamberlain Worcester porcelain "Crazy Cow" pattern plates,
circa 1815-1820
Set of six
The dessert plates in the 'crazy cow" pattern. The six plates are...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Paris Porcelain Botanical Set of Plates, Flamen-Fleury
By Old Paris
Located in Downingtown, PA
Antique Paris Porcelain set of Botanical plates,
Flamen-Fleury Factory,
circa 1830-1835
The set of four Paris porcelain circular plates from Fl...
Category
1830s French Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Spode Imperial China Dessert Service, Frog Pattern in Mauve, Regency circa 1828
By Spode
Located in London, GB
This is a very striking part dessert service made by Spode in about 1828, which is the Regency era. It is made of Spode's Imperial China and has the Frog pattern in mauve/purple. It consists of a high footed comport...
Category
1820s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Ironstone
Bloor Derby Set of 10 Plates, Fruit Paintings by Thomas Steel, Regency 1820-1825
By Thomas Steel, Bloor Derby
Located in London, GB
This is a spectacular and very rare set of ten dessert plates made by Derby in about 1825, which was the Regency era. The plates are richly gilded, each with an individual gilt pattern, and have superb fruit paintings, also each unique, by the famous porcelain decorator Thomas Steel.
One can occasionally find one of these plates in the market, but to find a whole set of 10 in such fabulous condition is extremely rare.
The Derby factory, later reshaped into Royal Crown Derby, is currently the oldest British porcelain factory still in production. Derby was one of the most prominent potteries right from the start of English porcelain production in the mid 1700s to today. Their items are of exceptionally high quality and many of the designs have become iconic, particularly the Imari designs; many of these are still being made today. Derby made many exciting designs in the Regency era, and these plates are beautiful examples. The marking at the bottom indicates that the plates were produced some time between 1806 and 1825, when the company was called "Bloor Derby"; however the style is from between 1820 and 1825.
Thomas Steel (sometimes written as Steele) is considered the very best 19th Century porcelain painter of fruits. He was born in Staffordshire in 1772 and was first apprenticed by Wedgwood. He moved to Derby in 1815, where he became the foremost flower and fruit painter. In 1825 he moved on to the Rockingham factory in Yorkshire, and a few years later to Minton in Staffordshire, where he worked the rest of his life.
Steel had a very recognisable style of fruit painting, perhaps best described by the biographer John Haslem:
"Steele painted both flowers and insects well, but as a painter of fruit on china he had no superior, if, indeed, he had any equal in his day... His grouping is harmonious, the light and shade well managed, each piece of fruit is well rounded, and the outline softened and blended into the one next to it, each partaking of the reflected colour from the other."
These plates each have a different richly gilded border, and octagonal paintings...
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1820s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Set 11 Antique Dinner Plates Rust Color Masons Sharkskin Pattern Circa 1900
Located in Katonah, NY
This excellent set of eleven Mason's Ironstone plates is decorated in rich rust color with overall black detailing resembling sharkskin. The set dates to circa 1900. The color is fab...
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Early 20th Century English Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Earthenware
Chamberlains Worcester Dessert Service, White with Flowers, Regency, ca 1822
Located in London, GB
This is a spectacular and rare dessert service made by Chamberlains Worcester in about 1822. The service consists of a high comport, 2 square dishes, 1 kidney shaped dish, 3 shell di...
Category
1820s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Spode Felspar Floral Dessert Service, Yellow, Butterfly Handles, circa 1822
By Spode
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning and very rare dessert service made by Spode in 1822, which was the Regency era. This beautiful service, which is in perfect condition, would be fantastic for a summer dinner party!
The service is made of Felspar porcelain and decorated in a beautiful pale yellow colour with an "Oeil de Perdrix" pattern and top quality floral reserves. The service consists of two lidded sauce tureens with stands, two deep rectangular dishes, two lozenge shaped dishes, one square dish, and six square dessert plates
Spode was the great Pioneer among the Georgian potters in England. Around the year 1800 he perfected the bone china recipe that has been used by British potters ever since, and he was also the leading potter behind the technique of transferware, making it possible for English potters to replace the Chinese export china...
Category
1820s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 8 Barr Flight & Barr Porcelain Plates, Imari Fence, Regency, 1811-1813
Located in London, GB
This is a spectacular set of eight plates made by Barr Flight & Barr between 1811 and 1813. They are made in one of the many versions of the "Imari Fence" or "Japan" pattern.
Barr...
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1810s English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Regency Large Coalport Porcelain Dessert Service-Thirty Nine Pieces
Located in Downingtown, PA
Regency-period Coalport Porcelain service is of the finest quality in terms of the porcelain itself and the decoration, each shape is particularly well designed with a distinctive sh...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Coalport English Cobalt Blue Gold Raised Encrusted Dinner Service Set 12 Plates
Located in Roslyn, NY
A Wonderful Coalport English Cobalt Blue & Raised Encrusted Gold Gilt Set Of 12 Dinner / Service Plates In Very Good Unused Condition.1650
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20th Century English Regency Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Regency dinner plates for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Regency dinner plates for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Mid-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, decorative objects and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with ceramic, porcelain and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Regency dinner plates made in a specific country, there are Europe, United Kingdom, and England pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original dinner plates, popular names associated with this style include Spode, Coalport Porcelain, Chamberlains Worcester, Flight, and Barr & Barr 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 $295 and tops out at $45,000 while the average work can sell for $1,200.
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