Face Plates

Located in Los angeles, CA

Face Plate, Winkler Designer: Barbini

Category

20th Century Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

1950s GAM Ceramic Face Plate

Located in CHAPONOST, FR

Vintage plate or catch-all tray featuring an Afro-inspired design from the 1950s, signed GAM. We love the graphic profile view and the matte black coloring—reminiscent of the Accolay...

Category

Vintage 1960s French French Provincial Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

Piero Fornasetti Arcimboldesca Vegetable Face Plate No. 12, After Arcimboldo

By Piero Fornasetti

Located in Downingtown, PA

Piero Fornasetti Arcimboldesca Vegetable Face Plate No. 12, After Arcimboldo Circa 1960s–1970s This Piero Fornasetti pottery plate is number 12 in the Arcimboldesca series, in which...

Category

Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic, Pottery

Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Clock Face Plate, Temi e Variazioni Motiv 20, 1980s

By Piero Fornasetti

Located in Downingtown, PA

Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Clock Face Plate, Temi e Variazioni Motiv 20, German, 1980s Piero Fornasetti's most famous image, the face of the opera singer Lina Cavalieri, becomes the...

Category

Vintage 1980s German Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Ceramic Plate with Vegetable Face Fornasetti

By Fornasetti

Located in Atlanta, GA

Fornasetti porcelain plate with face made with arranged vegetables. Stamped "2, Fornasetti-Milano, Made in Italy, Arcimboldesca'" to the underside.

Category

Late 20th Century Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

Ceramic Plate with Vegetable Face Fornasetti

By Fornasetti

Located in Atlanta, GA

Fornasetti porcelain plate with face made with arranged vegetables. Stamped "4, Fornasetti-Milano, Made in Italy, Arcimboldesca'" and "Arzberg Germany" in green to the underside.

Category

Late 20th Century Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

Ceramic Plate with Vegetable Face Fornasetti

By Fornasetti

Located in Atlanta, GA

Fornasetti porcelain plate with face made with arranged vegetables. Stamped 11, Fornasetti-Milano, Made in Italy, Arcimboldesca'" and "Arzberg Germany" in green to the underside.

Category

Late 20th Century Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

Ceramic Plate with Vegetable Face Fornasetti

By Fornasetti

Located in Atlanta, GA

Fornasetti Porcelain plate with face made with arranged vegetables. Stamped "1, Fornasetti-Milano, Made in Italy, Arcimboldesca'" and "Arzberg Germany" in green and hand gilt 3 to th...

Category

Late 20th Century Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

Ceramic Plate with Vegetable Face Fornasetti

By Fornasetti

Located in Atlanta, GA

Fornasetti Porcelain Plate with face made with arranged vegetables. Stamped "6, Fornasetti-Milano, Made in Italy, Arcimboldesca'" and "Arzberg Germany" in green, and hand gilt number...

Category

Late 20th Century Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

Vintage Boho Larry Lazlo Face Ceramic Plates - Set of 4

By Larry Laslo

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

Add a pop of playful sophistication to your dining collection with this exquisite set of 4 ceramic plates designed by Larry Lazlo. Each plate features a unique and vibrant face illus...

Category

Late 20th Century American Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

Fornasetti Tema e Variazioni Plate No. 74, Clock Face, Lina Cavalieri, Milan

By Piero Fornasetti

Located in Downingtown, PA

Fornasetti Tema e Variazioni Plate No. 74, Clock Face, Lina Cavalieri, Milan Atelier Fornasetti, Milan, 1990s Timeless beauty, taken literally.

Category

Late 20th Century Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Creil et Montereau Faïence Transferware Assiette Parlantes Face Card Plates, S/8

By Creil et Montereau

Located in Philadelphia, PA

A charming set of eight HBCM, Hippolyte Boulenger Creil Montereau Playing Card Faience Plates- France, circa 1920s. Known as assiettes parlantes or talking plates, this set is bas...

Category

Vintage 1920s French French Provincial Dinner Plates

Materials

Earthenware

Ceramic plate, signed, France, 1980

Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR

Style : Postmodernism Contemporary Art French Decorative Art Graphic Surrealist 1980s Main Characteristics : Hand-painted ceramic Studio signature Stylized female face design Black ...

Category

Vintage 1980s French Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate, Pattern Number 46

By Piero Fornasetti

Located in Downingtown, PA

"Fractured Beauty": Fornasetti "Themes & Variations" Plate #46 (Sliced Face) 1990s A dynamic and optical porcelain wall plate from the celebrated "Themes & Variations" (Tema e Varia...

Category

1990s Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate, Pattern Number 6

By Piero Fornasetti

Located in Downingtown, PA

"The Essential Muse": Fornasetti "Themes & Variations" Plate #6 (Floating Face) A surreal and minimalist porcelain wall plate from the celebrated "Themes & Variations" (Tema...

Category

Late 20th Century Italian Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Orchestra Plates, Musical Instruments, Set of 15

By Piero Fornasetti

Located in Downingtown, PA

The long tubes, necks and bows run horizontally and vertically across the face of the plate while the rounded bodies of the string instruments anchor the corners, so that the fifteen...

Category

20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Ceramic

Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Temi e Variazioni Motiv 27 Porcelain Plate, 1980s

By Piero Fornasetti

Located in Downingtown, PA

The surreal design derives from Fornasetti’s lifelong muse, the face of legendary Belle Époque soprano Lina Cavalieri: the left half of the plate presents her face in close-up, while...

Category

Vintage 1980s Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates

Materials

Porcelain

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Face Plates For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are several options of face plates available for sale. Each of these unique face plates was constructed with extraordinary care, often using ceramic, porcelain and earthenware. We have 101 antique and vintage face plates in-stock, while there are 3 modern editions to choose from as well. Face plates have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. Face plates are generally popular furniture pieces, but Mid-Century Modern, Regency and Victorian styles are often sought at 1stDibs. There have been many well-made face plates over the years, but those made by Fornasetti, Piero Fornasetti and Coalport Porcelain are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much are Face Plates?

The average selling price for at 1stDibs is $750, while they’re typically $235 on the low end and $10,000 highest priced.

Finding the Right Dinner Plates for You

Set the mood when you’re setting the table. The right antique and vintage dinner plates for the meals in your home can truly elevate the dining experience.

We haven’t had our own plate at dinner for very long. It wasn’t until the middle of the 19th century in Europe that individual dinner plates had become the norm, replacing the platters that diners had shared before them. Innovations at the dining table are believed to have been introduced by Italian noblewoman Catherine de’ Medici, who, when she married King Henry II of France in 1533, brought with her decorative table adornments for meals and fine tableware such as silver forks, replacing the fingers and knives utilized during dinner before her arrival. Italy was a bit faster on table settings, and, thanks to Catherine, tableware such as dinner plates would also replace the wooden trenchers and flat slabs of days-old bread that preceded them.

Today, while enthusiasts of mid-century modern furnishings might pine for vintage mismatched dinner plates — a mix of old and new can be refreshing — presenting ceramic vessels, glassware and decorative centerpieces that matched was once actually part of the point as setting the table became more refined during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And as Fornasetti dinner plates and Chinese porcelain tableware have long held weight as collector’s items and status symbols, your dinner dishes haven’t ever really been merely functional. From antique metal dishes and ornamental earthenware designed by celebrated English ceramics makers Wedgwood, dinner plates are statement-making works that bring elegance and likely stir conversation at your table.

Entertaining is an art form, and the kitchen bar island and dining room table in your space are cherished gathering places where families and friends convene and grow closer over good meals. Browse an extensive collection of antique and vintage dinner plates to pair with these important events today on 1stDibs.