$373Sale Price / set|35% Off
Lenox "Castle Garden" Footed Cups & Saucers; Set/12
By Lenox's Ceramic Art Company
Located in Malibu, CA
Lenox "Castle Garden" footed cups & saucers in pristine condition in pastel shades of pinks, blues & lilac with a gold rim.
Porcelain
Kate Spade Lenox Collins Stripe Demitasse Espresso Cup & Saucer NIB - Set of 4
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Kate Spade Lenox Collins Stripe Demitasse Espresso Cup & Saucer Set (NIB) - Set of 4 (8 pieces). Circa Late 20th Century. Measurements: (4) Cups: 2" H x 3" W x 2.25" D. (4) Saucers:...
Porcelain
$120Sale Price / set|20% Off
Vintage Lenox montclair tea cups and saucers set for 10
By Lenox's Ceramic Art Company
Located in Birmingham, AL
Preowned. Gorgeous Lenox Montclair Tea Cup & Saucer Set of 10 , 20 pieces : Presidential, Standard, ivory color Platinum Trim...
Bone
Lenox Three-Piece Tea Set with Sterling Silver Overlay
By Lenox's Ceramic Art Company
Located in Newburgh, NY
Three-piece Lenox, sterling overlay deco style tea set, in good condition, height teapot is 8 3/8 inches.
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Overlay Lenox Three-Piece Art Deco Tea Set
By Lenox's Ceramic Art Company
Located in Newburgh, NY
Three-piece Lenox, sterling overlay deco style tea set, in good condition.
Sterling Silver
1920s Silver Soldered Art Deco Reed & Barton - Lenox Two Cup Hotel Teapot
By Reed & Barton, Lenox's Ceramic Art Company
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A 1920s hotel teapot, an American collaboration by Lenox and Reed & Barton. Sized to hold two cups of perfectly brewed tea, the cobalt blue ceramic pot is braced in a silver soldered...
Silver Plate
1920s Silver Soldered Art Deco One Cup Hotel Teapot
By Lenox's Ceramic Art Company, Reed & Barton
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A sturdy hotel teapot, sized to hold one perfectly brewed cup of tea. The ceramic pot is braced in a silver soldered, silver plate holder of a base, handle and a lid with Art Deco st...
Silver Plate
Six Charming Hand-Painted Song Bird Cup and Saucers, Vintage Lenox
By Lenox's Ceramic Art Company
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A set of six unique and whimsical demi tasse or after dinner coffee cup and saucers featuring a series of different birds hand-painted by Lenox's re known artist: Jan Nosek. These pi...
Gold
Lenox Demi-Tass Set 12 Sterling Silver Holders, Rare Design
By Lenox's Ceramic Art Company
Located in Stamford, CT
Lenox rare vintage barrel shaped inserts with reticulated sterling silver holders. Unique floral basket design. Some inserts. Marked Tiffany and Co. Unique floral basket design. Some...
Sterling Silver
$5,800 / set
H 1 in Dm 10 in
12 Heavily Gilt Encrusted Antique Green & Gold Minton England Dinner Plates
By Minton
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A gorgeous set ! Please click on the pictures to see the detail and enlarge. Heavy raised paste gilding on a vibrant green collar and custom ordered through the fine Gilded Age Retai...
Gold, Enamel
Vintage Lenox Classical Style White Porcelain Mantle Lamp
By Lenox's Ceramic Art Company
Located in Doraville, GA
Vintage Lenox porcelain and plated metal torchère or mantle lamp. The lamp has been thoroughly cleaned and rewired with new socket, switch, twisted cord and plug. A lightbulb comes w...
Metal
$1,920Sale Price / set|32% Off
H 0.79 in W 15.16 in D 12.01 in
Limoges Bernardaud 62 Pieces Fine Faience Dinner Service
By Bernardaud
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
Exquisite fine cream faience tableware set adorned with scattered roses and gold trim. The set consists of 62 pieces and would be ideal for casual dining, or would make an eyecatchin...
Faience, Paint
$3,200
H 10.5 in W 13.75 in D 13.75 in
A French late 19th century Louis XV st. Lunéville Faience Porcelain serving set
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and most decorative French late 19th century Louis XV st. Lunéville Faience Porcelain serving set. This most attractive fifty-four piece dining is painted on over glaze co...
Porcelain
$1,250 / set
H 6 in Dm 11 in
Wonderful Service 12 Selb Bavaria Heinrich & Co Gold Encrusted Dinner Plates
By Heinrich & Co. 1, Selb Porcelain
Located in Roslyn, NY
A Wonderful Service Of 12 Selb Bavaria Heinrich & Co Gold Encrusted Dinner Plates
Porcelain
$3,200 / set
H 1 in Dm 9 in
12 Minton England Antique Custom Cobalt Blue Raised Gold Salad or Dessert Plates
By Minton
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
From the storied Gilded Age firm of Minton, England we have 12 elegant cobalt blue with raised gilding plates that were custom ordered through the retailer Davis, Collamore and Compa...
Gold, Enamel
Rosenthal porcelain dinner service "Maria", Germany 1966
By Rosenthal
Located in Delft, NL
Rosenthal porcelain dinner service "Maria", Germany 1966 A white porcelain dinner service set by Rosenthal, Germany Dated with the Rosenthal mark of 1966 The romantic set called " M...
Porcelain
$795 / item
H 4 in Dm 8.75 in
Wonderful Cauldon England Set 12 Lunch Dessert Plates Raised Gold Encrusted
By Cauldon
Located in Roslyn, NY
A wonderful service of cauldon England consisting of set 12 lunch / dessert plates with raised gold encrusted border rim. Retailed By: Higgind & Seiter New York.
Porcelain
"Old Paris” Porcelain Dinner Service, 19th Century, France
By Old Paris
Located in Delft, NL
“Old Paris” porcelain dinner service 188 pieces tableware (200 parts) 19th century French porcelain. Beautiful white porcelain with blue and gold painted border and in the c...
Porcelain
$1,575 / item
W 10.5 in D 10.5 in
Wonderful Service 12 Minton Ovington's Raised Gold Hand Painted Dinner Plates
By Ovington Brother At New York, Minton
Located in Roslyn, NY
A Wonderful Service Of 12 Minton Raised Gold Hand Painted Dinner Plates Retailed By Ovington's New York, Seem To Have Never Been Used Some Retaining Original Sticker.
Porcelain
Antique Meissen 68-Piece Floral Dinner Service
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in London, GB
Antique Meissen 68-piece floral dinner service German, c. 1900 Largest serving dish: Height 6cm, width 52.5cm, depth 37.5cm Square salad bowl: Height 9.5cm, width 22cm, depth 22cm...
Porcelain
$8,900 / set
H 5 in W 7 in D 10 in
Complete English Porcelain Dinner Service For 12 People With Coffee/Tea Service
By Coalport Porcelain
Located in Tarry Town, NY
English Coalport Cobalt Ground Porcelain Dinner Service with tea and coffee service for Twelve / with tableware serving Pieces. 10 piece place setting Maker's mark undersigned .Each...
Gold
French Louis XVI Provençal Settee, 18th Century
Located in Montreal, Quebec
French Louis XVI Provençal settee, 18th century Painted and patinated wood frame, recent Provençal upholstery in vintage pattern. A very beautiful, perfectly proportionned model in ...
Upholstery, Wood
$243,040Sale Price|30% Off
H 68 in W 55 in
A Magnificent Pair of French Royal Paintings "Aurora and Diana" "Night and Day"
Located in Queens, NY
Jacques-Francois Delyen (1684-1761), Court Painter of King Louis XV. A Magnificent Pair of Palatial "French Royal" Allegorical Paintings "Aurora and Diana" "Night and Day" A truly ...
Oil
Extensive Augarten Porcelain Dinner, Coffee and Tea Service, circa 1935
Located in New York, NY
Special commission from the factory for the Brucknerstift St. Florian, a seminary located on the outskirts of Vienna. Blue crowned Bindenshield and Wien Mark, iron-red printed hash m...
Porcelain
Lenox "Castle Garden" Bread/Dessert Plates Set/12
Located in Malibu, CA
Classic Lenox china pattern “castle garden” from the 1970's in shades of pink, yellow, green on ivory background. This stunning pattern has since been discontinued by Lenox. Gold ba...
Porcelain
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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