Tea Sets
Early 20th Century Victorian Tea Sets
Porcelain
18th Century Japanese Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
17th Century Edo Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
18th Century Japanese Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
20th Century Chinese Tea Sets
Porcelain
17th Century Edo Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Tea Sets
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Ceramic
1760s English Georgian Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
19th Century Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Silver Plate
2010s Italian Tea Sets
Ceramic
Late 20th Century English Tea Sets
Pewter
1970s American Belle Époque Vintage Tea Sets
Porcelain
1950s Polish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Porcelain
2010s Italian Tea Sets
Ceramic
2010s Italian Tea Sets
Glass
2010s Italian Tea Sets
Ceramic
Late 20th Century Dutch Colonial Tea Sets
Porcelain
20th Century Unknown Empire Tea Sets
Brass
1960s Norwegian Vintage Tea Sets
Stoneware
Mid-20th Century English Victorian Tea Sets
Ceramic
Early 20th Century English Tea Sets
Britannia Standard Silver
19th Century Japanese Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Sheraton Tea Sets
Silver Plate
2010s Italian Tea Sets
Glass
19th Century Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Tea Sets
Porcelain
Late 20th Century French Tea Sets
Porcelain
1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
18th Century Japanese Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
2010s Italian Tea Sets
Glass
Early 20th Century French Tea Sets
Brass
2010s Italian Tea Sets
Glass
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Tea Sets
Brass
1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
2010s Italian Tea Sets
Glass
1980s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Glass, Plastic
2010s Italian Modern Tea Sets
Porcelain
1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
19th Century English George III Antique Tea Sets
Copper
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Tea Sets
Metal
1960s Austrian Vintage Tea Sets
Stoneware
19th Century British Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Brass, Zinc
Early 20th Century Edwardian Tea Sets
Silver Plate
20th Century Edwardian Tea Sets
Silver Plate
Early 1900s Edwardian Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
19th Century British Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Zinc
Late 20th Century English Tea Sets
Pewter
Early 20th Century Edwardian Tea Sets
Silver Plate
Mid-20th Century Tea Sets
Ceramic
1830s Czech Antique Tea Sets
Ceramic
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Tea Sets
Metal
18th Century and Earlier English Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Edwardian Tea Sets
Silver Plate
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Tea Sets
Copper
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Ceramic
1880s Italian Other Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century French Tea Sets
Ceramic
Antique, New and Vintage Tea Sets
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.