#11 Antique Meiji Period Japanese Satsuma Autumn Tea Set 19th Century Wisteria
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Fabulous Tea set Satsuma of 11 pieces. Meiji period, 19th century Marked: Condition 1 cup with small frits/fleebites rim, rest perfect. Size jugs 110-140mm high cups 90x45mm DXH and...
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
$877Sale Price|35% Off
White with Overglaze Enamel Tea Set Circa 1725, Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng Reign
Located in seoul, KR
The wear on its surface is a testament to its age and underwater journey, giving it a unique patina that only time and nature can create. Traces of once-painted nature and chicken il...
Ceramic, Porcelain
$903Sale Price|35% Off
White with Overglaze Enamel Tea Set Circa 1725, Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng Reign
Located in seoul, KR
The wear on its surface is a testament to its age and underwater journey, giving it a unique patina that only time and nature can create. The overglaze enamel decoration that adorns ...
Ceramic, Porcelain
10 Pc English Hammersley & Co Rose Point Strawberry Basket Tea Serving Set
By Shelley Pottery, Hammersley
Located in Dayton, OH
#38183 Vintage 10 piece serving set by Hammersley & Company. White bone china with gilded details. Set includes handled serving tray with creamer and sugar bowl in the Rose Point pa...
Porcelain
Set of 2 Antique Japanese Edo Period Tea Dishes Arita with Fuku Mark
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Set of 2 Antique Japanese Edo Period Tea Dishes Arita with Fuku Mark Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Region of Origin: Japan Period: Pre-1800 Age: Pre-1800 Con...
Porcelain
1960s Tea or Coffee Set "Elka" by J. Jezek for Brezova-Pirkenhammer, CZ
By Jaroslav Jezek
Located in Praha, CZ
- very good original condition - dimensions: teapot - 22 x 20 x 9; mug - 6 x 8 x 6; saucer - 2 x 12 x 12, sugar - bowl 6 x 11 x 8; milkweed - 11 x 8 x 4cm
Porcelain
18th Century Chinese Canton Enamel Plate
Located in New Orleans, LA
There was a great demand in the West during the 18th and 19th centuries for Chinese porcelain dinner sets, tea services, vases, etc., and Canton enamel helped to fill this demand.
Enamel
Qianlong period Canton Enamel Square Dish with Dragon, China Late 18th Century
Located in Grythyttan, SE
During the 18th and 19th centuries, there was significant demand in the West for Chinese porcelain dinner sets, tea services, and vases, and Canton enamel played a vital role in meet...
Copper, Enamel
Augarten Vienna Mocha Tea Set Six Persons Maria Theresia Form Schubert
By Augarten Porzellanmanufaktur
Located in Vienna, AT
We invite you here to look at a splendid as well as nicest Augarten Vienna Mocha & Tea Set for six persons: This Augarten tea set is of finest elegance due to its delicate gree...
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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