Rosenthal, Porcelain Tea Set Consisting of Teapot, Creamer and Sugar Bowl
Located in København, Copenhagen
Rosenthal, a porcelain tea set consisting of teapot, creamer and sugar bowl. Hand-painted with purple flowers. 1920/30s. In perfect condition. Teapot measuring: L 27.5 (incl. spo...
Porcelain
Late 18th Century Georgian English New Hall Partial Porcelain Tea Set
By New Hall
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Late 18th century Georgian English New Hall partial fine porcelain tea/china set with rose colored fish-scale border, scrolling garland and florets, circa 1781-1835. Included in this...
Porcelain
Antique 21 piece Doric China Longton Stafford Porcelain Tea Set 20th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful Antique Doric China High Street Longton Staffordshire porcelain tea set Circa 1926 - 35 in date. It contains 21 pieces and is beautifully made with superb decor...
Porcelain
Set of Six 18th Century Flight Worcester Porcelain Tea Cups and Saucers
By Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A set of six antique Flight Worcester porcelain cups and saucers. Each with a ribbed swirl design and cobalt blue and gold floral sprig and garland decoration. Each base is mar...
Porcelain
$875Sale Price|30% Off
Antique Art Deco TLB Limoges Touze Lemaître Frères & Blancher Tea Coffee Set
Located in Dayton, OH
11 piece antique French Limoges porcelain demitasse tea set by TLB (Touze, Lemaître Frères & Blancher). Pots feature a stylized round, art deco inspired shape. White porcelain with g...
Porcelain
Antique 21 piece Royal Albert Crown China Porcelain Tea Set 20th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful Antique Royal Albert Crown china porcelain tea set, circa 1917 to 1925. It contains 21 pieces and is beautifully made with superb gilded decoration in Cobalt and...
Porcelain
Antique Hand-Painted Japanese Floral Porcelain Tea Service Set for 6 by Nippon
Located in Dekalb, IL
Hand-painted porcelain tea service produced during the Nippon era, decorated with a soft ivory border accented by delicate pink floral motifs, gilt detailing, and a colorful floral g...
Ceramic, Porcelain
Matched Royal Copenhagen & Porsgrund Three Piece Tea Set and Saucer
By Porsgrund Porselænsfabrik
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A Matched Royal Copenhagen & Porsgrund three piece tea set and saucer. Early 20th century. The set consists of a porsgrund teapot with lid porsgrund creamer and royal copenhagen fl...
Porcelain
Charming man in the moon, googlie, funny faces tea set porcelain J. Milota 1920s
Located in Wien, AT
Charming man in the moon / funny faces / googlie / cartoon serving tea set, very rare and very entertaining! This set consists of a tea pot, a milk jug and cups with saucers. This ...
Porcelain, Paint
$504Sale Price|20% Off
Tettau Porcelain Tea Service, 35-Piece Set, Gilded, Germany, 1930s
Located in Opole, PL
Presented tea service is made of white china. It is ornamented with a sky-blue stripe of a painted, gilded pattern. The whole is signed with the Koniglich Porzellanfabrik Tettau Bav...
Porcelain
Tea Set 18C Chinese porcelain Dish CORNELIS PRONK 'Dame Au Parasol' Pattern
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A Chinese Export Porcelain saucer dish and Cup after the ‘Dame Au Parasol’ design by Cornelis Pronk (1691 – 1759) commissioned by the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oost-Indisch...
Porcelain
Set for 16 Royal Vienna Style Coffee Tea Dessert Service, circa 1930
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in Austin, TX
Beautiful vintage Royal Vienna style dessert/ coffee set for 16 decorated with four different mythological scenes: Ares receiving armor, Europa and the bull, Iphigenia escaping sacri...
Porcelain
19th Century Satsuma Japanese Hand Painted Porcelain Tea or Coffee Set 15 Pieces
By Satsuma
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Beautiful hand painted and gold porcelain tea or coffee set Satsuma Japanese 15 pieces, 1880s. The service is complete to serve six people at the table includes: 1 teapot, 1 sugar bo...
Porcelain
Hammersley “Victorian Violets” English Bone China Tea Set w Gold Trim, 15 pcs
Located in Plainview, NY
This elegant 15-piece tea set is the highly collectible Hammersley “Victorian Violets” pattern, a fine English bone china service from the renowned “England’s Countryside” series. Th...
Porcelain
Delft Blue “Tea Tree” (Tree of Life) Set of 4 Plates, Van Duijn, ca 1770
By De Porceleyne Schotel
Located in DELFT, NL
This set comprises four mid-18th-century Delft plates, each with a scalloped rim and decoration in cobalt blue. The central field shows a single tree rising from stylised rockwork, f...
Earthenware, Delft, Faience
A historically important Victorian silver tea and coffee set
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A historically important Victorian silver tea and coffee set, presented to Francis Pettit-Smith, inventor of the screw propellor, in 1856, comprising a coffee pot, a tea pot, a cream...
Silver
A large antique French Rococo style silvered brass serving tray
Located in Sleepy Hollow, NY
A large and very good quality antique French Rococo style silvered brass serving / tea tray circa 1900. Very probably Tetard Freres, Paris ( the maker's mark is worn out but very mu...
Silver Plate
$151,040Sale Price / set|20% Off
17th Century Qing Dynasty Set of 5 Chinese Bamboo Tea Cups with Silver Inlaid
Located in Brea, CA
A fine set of 5pieces Chinese bamboo tea cups with silvered interiors from the 17th century Qing Dynasty, the faces each of each decorated to the exterior bamboo with Chinese words ,...
Bamboo
$28,000 / set
Gustave Keller, Tea Service, France, circa 1920s
By Gustave Keller Freres
Located in New York, NY
A silver tea set including two tea pots, a creamer, and a sugar bowl, with elegantly arched handles by renowned French silversmith Gustave Keller.
Silver
Antique Three-Piece Sterling Silver Tea and Coffee Set
Located in London, GB
This set is in very good condition. This handsome George IV and Victorian silver tea and coffee set comes from the collection of Bentley & Skinner, the London jewellers by appointme...
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver
Jean Puiforcat French Art Deco Silver Coffee & Tea Set
By Jean Puiforcat
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco silver coffee and tea set. Made by Jean Puiforcat in France, ca 1930.
Silver
$2,464Sale Price / set|20% Off
Antique German Rococo Silver 5-Piece Coffee & Tea Set
Located in New York, NY
German Rococo 800 silver coffee and tea set, ca 1920. This set comprises 5 pieces: Coffeepot, teapot, hot milk pot, creamer, and sugar.
Silver
Antique Tiffany Clover Sterling Silver 4-Piece Coffee & Tea Set
Located in New York, NY
Clover sterling silver coffee and tea set. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York, early 20th century.
Sterling Silver
R&W Wilson Philadelphia Federal Coin Silver Coffee & Tea Set
Located in New York, NY
Federal coin silver coffee and tea set. Made by Robert & William Wilson in Philadelphia, ca 1825.
Silver
$11,000Sale Price / set|20% Off
Antique Gorham Medallion Coin Silver 5-Piece Coffee & Tea Set
By Gorham Manufacturing Company
Located in New York, NY
Medallion coin silver coffee and tea set. Made by Gorham in Providence, ca 1860.
Silver
Jean Puiforcat French Art Deco Silver 4-Piece Coffee & Tea Set
By Jean Puiforcat
Located in New York, NY
French Art Deco silver coffee and tea set, ca 1930. This set comprises 4 pieces: coffeepot, teapot, creamer, and sugar.
Silver
Paul Storr Regency Classical Coffee & Tea Set with Snake Handles
By Paul Storr
Located in New York, NY
George III sterling silver coffee and tea set. Made by Paul Storr in London in 1809-10.
Sterling Silver
Antique Shiebler Japonesque Applied Leaf and Bug Coffee & Tea Set
By George W. Shiebler & Co.
Located in New York, NY
Japonesque sterling silver coffee and tea set. Made by George W. Shiebler & Co. in New York, ca 1890.
Sterling Silver
Antique Tiffany Edwardian Classical Sterling Silver Coffee Set on Tray
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in New York, NY
Edwardian Classical sterling silver coffee set on tray. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York, ca 1921. This set comprises coffeepot, creamer, and sugar on tray. Each: Fluted ovoid b...
Sterling Silver
Set of 17 Antique Tiffany Lap Over Edge Sterling Silver Fish Forks
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in New York, NY
Set of 17 Lap Over Edge sterling silver fish forks. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York. Tapering stem with acid-etched ornament. Motifs vary. Mushrooms, morning glories, birds, fish, ...
Sterling Silver
Reed & Barton, Six Piece Tea and Coffee Service, US, circa 1872
By Reed & Barton
Located in New York, NY
Comprising: teapot, coffeepot, creamer, sugar bowl with cover, slop bowl, and spooner with servant's bell. Each stamped: MFD & PLATED BY / REED & BARTON / 2585 Each teapot stamped: ...
Silver Plate
Antique French Restauration Classical Silver Bachelor Coffeepot
Located in New York, NY
French Restauration Classical silver bachelor coffeepot, ca 1820. Ovoid bowl on three leaf-mounted paw supports; neck mounted with cast eagle head spout. Cover hinged with cast bud f...
Silver
Antique European Silver Teapot in Dutch Rococo Style
Located in New York, NY
European Rococo silver teapot, 19th century. Dutch-form: Bellied bowl and hinged and domed cover with vasiform finial. Double-scroll handle has leaf-cap with cherub head terminal. Sp...
Silver
Paul Storr Georgian Regency Sterling Silver Hot Water Urn, 1809
By Paul Storr
Located in New York, NY
George III sterling silver hot water urn. Made by Paul Storr in London in 1809. Round and girdled bowl on raised foot mounted to square base with splayed leaf-capped volute-scroll te...
Sterling Silver
$2,880Sale Price|20% Off
Antique John Burger New York Federal Classical Silver Teapot
Located in New York, NY
Federal Classical coin silver teapot. Made by John Burger in New York, ca 1790. Straight and oval with long diagonal spout; silver-mounted high-looping and leaf-capped stained-wood h...
Silver
$4,800Sale Price / set|20% Off
Pair of French Restauration Silver Coffeepots with Horse Head Spouts
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French Restauration Classical 950 silver coffeepots. Each: Ovoid bowl, drum-form neck, and hinged and domed cover with leaf-mounted berry finial. Leaf-wrapped s-scroll spout ...
Silver
$7,200Sale Price|20% Off
Hester Bateman English Georgian Neoclassical Teapot, 1780
By Hester Bateman
Located in New York, NY
George III sterling silver teapot. Made by Hester Bateman in London in 1780. Oval body with straight diagonal spout and capped and high-looping stained-wood handle; cover hinged and ...
Sterling Silver
$5,280Sale Price|20% Off
Matthew Boulton English Georgian Regency Sheffield Plate Hot Water Urn
By Matthew Boulton
Located in New York, NY
Georgian Regency hot water urn, ca 1820. Bellied bowl with half-gadrooning leaf-mounted and wrapped reeded bracket side handles; patera-mounted reeded horizontal spout with scallop-s...
Sheffield Plate
$9,120Sale Price / set|20% Off
Antique Tiffany Edwardian Classical 5-Piece Coffee & Tea Set
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in New York, NY
Edwardian Classical sterling silver coffee and tea set. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York, ca 1910.
Sterling Silver
George Jones Blossom Teapot And Cover
By George Jones
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
George Jones Majolica teapot which features apple leaves and blossom. Colouration: turquoise, brown, green, are predominant. English diamond registration mark for the date 23/04/1873.
Majolica
19th-Century Majolica Minton Chinaman Teapot
By Minton
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica figural teapot signed Minton. Modeled as a Chinaman , the tail formed as the Chinaman’s pigtail, his head forming the cover with his hair comb forming the finial. Reference ...
Ceramic
Ready to serve high tea and brunch for your family and friends? Start with the right antique, new or vintage tea set.
Tea is a multicultural, multinational beverage and isn’t confined to any particular lifestyle or age group. It has humble beginnings, and one of its best-known origin stories places the first cups of tea in 2700 B.C. in China, where it was recognized for its medicinal properties. Jump ahead to 17th-century England, when Chinese tea began to arrive at ports in London. During the early 1800s, tea became widely affordable, and the concept of teatime took shape all over England. Today, more than 150 million people reportedly drink tea daily in the United States.
Early tea drinkers enjoyed their beverage in a bowl, and English potters eventually added a handle to the porcelain bowls so that burning your fingers became less of a teatime hazard. With the rise in the popularity of teatime, tea sets, also referred to as tea service, became a hot commodity.
During Queen Victoria’s reign, teakettles and coffeepots were added to tea services that were quite large — indeed, small baked goods were served with your drink back then, and a tea set could include many teacups and saucers, a milk pot and other accessories.
During the early 1920s, a sterling-silver full tea service and tray designed by Tiffany & Co. might include a hot-water kettle on a stand, a coffeepot, teapot, a creamer with a small lip spout, a waste bowl and a bowl for sugar, which the British were stirring into tea as early as the 18th century.
But you don’t have to limit your tea set to Victorian or Art Deco styles — shake up teatime with an artful contemporary service. If the bold porcelain cups and saucers by Italian brand Seletti are too unconventional for your otherwise subdued tea circle, find antique services on 1stDibs from Japan, France and other locales as well as vintage mid-century modern tea sets and neoclassical designs.
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