Mason's Vintage Ironstone Nabob Coffee Cup and Saucer Set, 12 pieces, circa 1920
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Add that English charm to your table with this beautiful vintage Mason’s Ironstone “Nabob” coffee cup and saucer set with 6 cups and 6 saucers. Featuring the highly collectible Nabob...
Ceramic
Antique Tiffany Gilt Encrusted Cup & Saucers, Eleven Sets 22 Pieces Circa 1910
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Custom Ordered and Retailed through the fine Gilded Age firm of Tiffany & Co New York. This set of 11 cup and saucers features a striking shape and handle along with gilt encrusted b...
Gold, Enamel
$480Sale Price / set|20% Off
Set of Eight Wedgwood Creamware Grape Leaf Cups and Saucers
By Wedgwood
Located in New York, NY
Set of eight Wedgwood creamware grape leaf cups and saucers. Antique creamware cups and saucers with scrolling hand-painted grape vines with green grape leaves, purple grape clusters...
Creamware
Antique Royal Crown Derby Chinoiserie Styled Teapot, Cream & Sugar Set
By Royal Crown Derby Porcelain
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This teapot and cream and sugar set were made by the well known Royal Crown Derby maker of England and dates to approximately 1850 and done in the period Chinoiserie style. The set i...
Porcelain
Set of Six Cantonese Blue & White Teacups with Saucers 19thC Early 20thC
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous blue & white Cantonese teacups with Saucers. Late 19thC to early 20thC is the time period. In excellent antique condition with minimal wear. No cracks or chips. Priced and s...
Porcelain
Antique Royal Crown Derby Chinoiserie Styled Five Small Cup & Saucer Sets
By Royal Crown Derby Porcelain
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
These five small cup and saucer sets, and one additional saucer, were made by the well known Royal Crown Derby maker of England and date to approximately 1850 and done in the period ...
Porcelain
Antique Spode Dollar Pattern Coffee Cups, Set of 9, English Porcelain Circa 1820
By Spode
Located in Katonah, NY
Perfect for a double espresso! These nine "Dollar" pattern porcelain coffee cups are handpainted in the exquisite "Dollar" pattern. Spode made this set in England circa 1820. The dec...
Porcelain
$4,850Sale Price / set|35% Off
Berlin KPM Porcelain Five-Piece Cobalt-Blue and Parcel-Gilt Coffee Set
By Kerafina Royal Porzellan KPM
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine 19th century Berlin KPM Porcelain Royal five-piece cobalt-blue and 24-carat gold parcel-gilt coffee set. The finely painted and decorated two-serving suite comprising of ...
Porcelain
Early 19th-Century Paris Porcelain Coffee Pot with Gilding & Blue Florals
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
This exquisite early 19th-century Paris porcelain coffee pot is a refined example of the elegance and creativity associated with the Empire and Restauration periods. Beautifully shap...
Porcelain, Paint
1920's German Bauhaus Ceramic Teapot by Margarete Heymann for Häel Werkstat
By Margarete Heymann
Located in New York, NY
Bauhaus design hand painted ceramic teapot by renowned artist Margarete Heymann, c. 1920's. Germany. Stamped with workshop hallmark on bottom. Margarete Heymann was born in August ...
Ceramic
Juego de café, porcelana esmaltada Royal Vienna, siglo XIX
Located in MADRID, ES
Juego de café Tú y Yo. Porcelana esmaltada. Royal Vienna, Austria, circa 1890, con bonitas escenas mitológicas pintadas a mano y marcas en la base de las piezas. Se compone de una g...
Porcelain
$240Sale Price / set|20% Off
Pair Gilt Green Pink Ivy and Rose Plates Cups and Saucers
By Royal Crown Derby Porcelain
Located in New York, NY
Pair gilt green pink ivy and rose plates cups and saucers. Pair antique Derby porcelain breakfast or tea sets in vibrant green and soft pink with gilt vine details and rims. Two cups...
Porcelain
Thomas Wolfe Factory Z Lion Pattern English Teacup and Saucer
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A scarce antique English Staffordshire bone china teacup and saucer hand decorated with a red lion by Thomas Wolfe (Factory Z) and dating from around 1810. The cup is of wide round s...
Porcelain
Worcester Porcelain Cup & Saucer First Period Two Quail Pattern C-1770
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Katonah, NY
Dimensions: 5.5″diameter of the saucer, the cup 2.5″ tall x 2.5″ diameter Condition: Excellent Price: $480 For an example of the First Period Worcester Two Quail pattern with an ima...
Porcelain
First Period Worcester Porcelain Cup and Saucer Queen’s Pattern Circa 1770
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Katonah, NY
This First Period Worcester Porcelain cup and saucer are hand-painted in the beautiful Queen’s Pattern, which was inspired by Japanese Imari porcelain of the 17th century. The design...
Porcelain
19th Century English Majolica Teapot
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Vibrant and whimsical late 19th century Majolica teapot with yellow background. The geranium decoration on the front and back with acorn finial.
Majolica
Darte Frères Faux Tortoise and Gilt Partial Coffee Service
By Darte Frères
Located in New York, NY
Darte Frères Faux Tortoise and Gilt Partial Coffee Service. Antique Empire Paris porcelain by Darte Frères 1795-1825 in a rich mocha faux tortoise pattern with neoclassical decorativ...
Porcelain
Early Meissen Porcelain Teapot circa 1715 from the Arnhold Collection
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
An early Meissen porcelain teapot made circa 1715, decorated by a Dutch hausmaler circa 1730-1740. The teapot is decorated in a Kakiemon palette of turquoise, red, blue and yellow...
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.
Porcelain
Antique Japanese Satsuma Tea Set, Taishō Period – Hand-Painted Kyō-Satsuma
Located in Hamburg, DE
This antique Japanese tea set, dating from the Taishō period (1912–1926), is a beautiful example of traditional Satsuma ceramics, also known as Satsuma ware.
Ceramic
19th Century R.S. Prussia Children's Tea Set
By RS Prussia
Located in High Point, NC
19th century RS Prussia incomplete child's tea set. The set includes a tray, tea to, sugar and creamer, waste bowl, 4 small cups and 3 saucers and 5 small plates. The measurements ...
Ceramic
English Carlton Ware 19 Piece Tea Serving Set
By Carlton Ware Ltd
Located in Dallas, TX
English Carlton Ware 19 piece tea serving set includes everything pictured. Each piece is meticulously hand-painted to depict ripe pomegranates on the vine in muted earth tones of gr...
Ceramic
Rare 19th Century Sponge / Spatter Ware Childs Tea Set
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 17 piece child's tea set is quite rare to find and in pristine condition. The set is in pristine condition. This set was found in Pennsylvania. There is six cups and saucers and...
Pottery
Antique Victorian Silverplate Tea Set, Circa 1890, 6-Piece Collection
Located in Queens, NY
6-Piece English Victorian (19/20th Century) tea/coffee set in silverplate with painted metal handles. 3 pots and 3 sugar/creamers. (PRICED AS SET)
Metal
$923Sale Price|20% Off
Satsuma Red Gold Blue Satsuma Porcelain Tea Set, Nakasima Japan
By Satsuma
Located in Valladolid, ES
The reliefs on this coffee set are hand-painted using the Japanese "moriage" technique.
Gold
Antique Porcelain Tea Set for 11 Person by Carl Tielsch
By Carl Tielsch & Co. 1
Located in Vilnius, LT
The porcelain tea set for 11 person is decorated with black and gold decor and handmade by Carl Tielsch in 19th century. The total amount of items in the set: 37 pcs. Tea cup dimen...
Porcelain
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.
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
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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