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Tea Sets For Sale
Georg Jensen Blossom Teapot in Hammered Sterling Silver with Ivory Handle
Located in København, Copenhagen
Georg Jensen Blossom teapot in hammered sterling silver with ivory handle.
Model 2C. Dated 1915-1930.
Measures: 24 x 14 cm (incl. Handle).
In exc...
Category
1910s Danish Art Nouveau Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
$5,600 Sale Price
30% Off
Tiffany & Co. 1896 Sterling Silver 5-Piece Tea & Coffee Set in Holly Pattern?
Located in New York, NY
Tiffany & Co. sterling silver 5-piece tea and coffee set, possibly in the Holly pattern, in pattern number 12827 from 1896, beautifully adorned with stylized leaf and grape motifs, a...
Category
1890s American Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Art Deco Sterling Silver Tea Coffee Set English 1931
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Heavy Sterling Silver 5-piece Art Deco Tea and Coffee Set, English hallmarked Sterling Silver for Sheffield 1931 Roberts and Belk. The 5-piece set of octagonal form on conforming bas...
Category
1930s English Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vintage 20th Century White and Green Coffee or Tea Set Signed circa 1950
By Mado Jolain
Located in Neuilly-en- sancerre, FR
In the style of Mado Jolain
Original vintage tea or coffee set
2 pitchers and 2 cups or bowls
Original perfect condition
Signed under the base
Measures: Pitcher : hei...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Silver Chinese Export Tea and Coffee Service, by Tuck Chang & Co., Shanghai
Located in London, GB
Silver Chinese Export tea and coffee service, by Tuck Chang & Co., Shanghai
Chinese, Late 19th century
Measures: Milk jug: height 8cm, width 14cm, depth 10cm
Coffee pot: height 25...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
$30,481 Sale Price / set
30% Off
German Porcelain Tea / Coffee Service For Ten
Located in Tarry Town, NY
German porcelain tea / coffee service for ten people. Each piece is in great condition. Maker's mark undersigned "Crown Heinrich Germany". All together 30 pieces. Measures: Include tall covered coffee / tea pot 9.7" x 8". Medium tea / coffee pot 9" x 7". Small coffee / tea pot 5.8" x 7". Ten coffee / tea cups 4.3" x 2.5". Ten coffee / tea saucers...
Category
Early 20th Century German Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$5,874 / set
Antique Indian Silver Three Piece Tea Service
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A exceptional, fine and impressive antique Indian silver three piece tea service; an addition to our diverse silver teaware collection.
This exceptional antique Indian silver tea se...
Category
1890s Indian Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
Swedish Designer, Tea Pot, Silver Plate, Rattan, Wood, Sweden, C. 1940s
Located in High Point, NC
A silver plate, wood and rattan tea pot designed and produced in Sweden, 1940s.
Category
1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
Chrysanthemum by Tiffany & Co. Sterling Silver Large Tea Tray #6682-4278 #2689
Located in Big Bend, WI
Superb Chrysanthemum by Tiffany & Co. sterling silver large and impressive antique tea tray with handles. The tray is marked #6682-4278 with "T" date ...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
Set of 20 Antique Japanese Arita Kangxi Style Tea Set Flowers Porcelain, 19th C
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nice and rare set of blue and white teabowls, Marked. Japanese in Chinese style. Top Quality.
Additional information:
Material: Porcelain & Pottery
Region of Origin: Japan
Pe...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$1,109 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Victorian gilt sterling silver sugar and cream set made in London in 1887
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1887 by Wakely & Wheeler, this attractive, Victorian, Antique Sterling Silver Sugar & Cream Set, is presented in the original box along with 6 teaspoons and a...
Category
1880s English Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Miniature Teapot
By Yapp & Woodward
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, miniature antique Victorian English sterling silver teapot in the Chinoiserie style; an addition to our silver teaware collection
This exceptional and rare antique Victorian sterling silver miniature teapot...
Category
1840s British Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
KPM, Berlin, Royal Ivory Tea Service in Cream-Colored Porcelain
Located in København, Copenhagen
KPM, Berlin. Royal Ivory tea service in cream-colored porcelain with gold decoration for six people.
1920s.
Consisting of six teacups with saucers, six ...
Category
1920s German Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$630 Sale Price / set
30% Off
English Georgian Sterling Silver Coffee Pot from Late 18th/ Early 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
English, sterling silver coffee pot from the Georgian era (late 18th/early 19th century) with a wood handle. It measures 8 1/8'' in height by 6 3/4'' from handle to spout, weighs 14....
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Antique Doccia Porcelain Italian Neoclassical Topographical Teapot
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique topographical porcelain teapot.
By Doccia Porcelain Manufactory circa 1820.
With painted enamel topographical scenes: each...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Wedgwood Porcelain Coffee Service for 14 People
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Wedgwood porcelain with gold design detail coffee service for fourteen people. Each piece is in great condition. Maker's mark undersigned. Service include 14 coffee / expresso cups...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Tea Sets
Materials
Gold
$5,986 / set
Japanese Antique Pure Silver Tea Set Akira Mimatsu Arthur and Bond
Located in Newark, England
MEIJI PERIOD (1868-1912)
MEASUREMENTS
Tea Pot 11.5cm High x 17.5cm Long x 10cm Wide (4.53 x 6.9 x 3.94 Inches) – Sugar Bowl 10cm High x 8.5cm Diameter (3.94 x 3.35 Inches) – Milk ...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
Incredible Teniers style sterling silver tea and coffee service hallmarked 1880
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1880 by Daniel & Charles Houle, this incredible, Victorian, Antique Sterling Silver Tea Set, is elaborately decorated with a tavern scene in the manner of the...
Category
1880s English Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
Guido ANDLOVITZ - LAVENO CERAMIC 1930s - Tea service - 13 PIECES
Located in Milano, IT
This tea service ART DECÓ (year 1930), glazed ceramic in white and silver ,designed by architect and designer Guido ANDLOVITZ, and produced in the factory in LAVENO , on Lake MAGGIO...
Category
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Silver Coffee and Tea Set by Wmf
Located in Roma, IT
Silver coffee and tea set is an original group of decorative objects realized in the between the 1920s and the 1920s.
Original silver metal.
Made in Germany by WMF.
Farir ...
Category
1920s German Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
$469 Sale Price / set
50% Off
Art Deco Modernist Silver Plated Tea service set France
Located in Den Haag, NL
Stunning Three piece Tea set . Silver Plated on Copper ,Art Deco in style
These pieces all are signed .With a Star . Modele Depose . Made in France .
Wooden handles . Gold plated d...
Category
1980s French Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
Archibald Knox Liberty & Co Silver Art Nouveau Silver Teapot
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A fine and rare Art Nouveau Liberty & Co silver teapot designed by renowned designer Archibald Knox (British, 1864-1933) and dated 1900.
Archibald Knox, was a Manx designer of Scot...
Category
Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
Set of Six Capodimonte Porcelain Tea /Coffee Cups with Floral Motifs, Italy
By Capodimonte
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1950s.
This set is made in Capodimonte porcelain and features hand painted floral motifs and golden edges.
They are vintage therefore they might show slight traces of ...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$668 Sale Price / set
53% Off
Antique George I Octagonal Silver Coffee Pot 1719 18th Century Early Georgian
Located in London, GB
An elegant Antique George I Solid Silver Coffee Pot in a traditional Tapered Octagonal shape width an Octagonal Domed Lid. The early Georgian C...
Category
18th Century English George I Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
$8,164 Sale Price
20% Off
Coffee Service by Ana Maria Nunez De Brilanti for Plateria Victoria, Mexico 1960
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Introducing the remarkable Copper & Silver Coffee/Tea Service by Ana Maria Nunez De Brilanti for Plateria Victoria, Mexico 1960's. Immerse yourself in ...
Category
1960s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate, Copper
Contemporary Hand Blown Glass "Suiseki Tea Cups" Stone Water Nature Elegant Tiny
Located in Camisano Vicentino, IT
Introducing the Suiseki Tea Cups, a pair of exquisite hand-blown glass creations by the talented Simone Crestani. These captivating tea cups are cherished piec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Glass
Victorian Queen Anne Style Sterling Silver Three-Piece Tea Service
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver three-piece tea set in the Queen Anne style; an addition to our silver teaware collection.
This fine antique Victorian sterling silver three-piece tea service consists of a teapot, sugar bowl and cream jug / creamer.
Each piece has a plain circular compressed form onto a plain circular collet foot.
The lower portion of each item is embellished with embossed fluted decoration in the Queen Anne style.
The surface of the upper portion of each piece is plain with an impressive applied gadroon decorated border to the waisted flared rim.
The teapot is fitted with a flush hinged domed hallmarked cover, which also features fluted decoration; the flush hinge indicates the Fine quality of this service.
The cover is surmounted by the original carved circular fluted painted wood and sterling silver finial, securing to the interior with a wing nut.
This fine antique teapot is fitted with a swan necked spout ornamented with an impressive embossed singular leaf design to the underside.
The teapot retains the original C-shape carved painted wood handle with a plain scrolling thumbpiece.
The cream jug and sugar bowl have plain ribbed angular sterling silver handles.
This impressive Queen Anne tea set was crafted by the London silversmiths Walter Walker...
Category
1890s English Queen Anne Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver, Silver
Minimalist 'Cube' Teapot by Rolf Sinnemark for Rörstrand, Sweden 1986
Located in Antwerpen, Antwerp
This teapot by Rolf Sinnemark is a wink to the modernism period. Its geometric shape combined with the graphic pattern gives the teapot a diverse and interesting look. Sinnemark was ...
Category
1980s Swedish Minimalist Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Thomas Whieldon Fenton Staffordshire Redware Oriental Molded Teapot
By Thomas Whieldon Pottery
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare English Staffordshire redware pottery teapot decorated with Oriental molded patterning by Thomas Whieldon, Fenton and dating circa 1760/70. The teapot is lightly and finely po...
Category
1760s English George III Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Terracotta
Gorham Art Deco Pair of Silver Plated Breakfast Jugs with Raffia Handles
Located in Prato, Tuscany
We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects.
Pair ...
Category
1910s American Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
Villeroy & Boch Coffee Serving Set Green Burgenland with Stamp 1970s/80s
Located in Bastogne, BE
Villeroy & Boch Coffee Set Green Burgenland Series, Germany.
Mettlach ceramics with landscape decorations from Burgenland.
The set includes:
1 sugar bowl - Height: 4 inch - 10 cm....
Category
1970s German Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Studio Pottery Signed Tea Pot with Fine Form and Color
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A fine studio pottery Tea Server with fine form and craftsmanship. The pot with decorative free form foliate decoration in brown and blue on a pleasing spotted oyster background and ...
Category
20th Century Edo Tea Sets
Materials
Stoneware, Rattan
Chrysanthemum by Tiffany & Co. Sterling Silver Tea Pot #52907121 '#4131'
Located in Big Bend, WI
Tiffany & Co.
Fabulous Chrysanthemum by Tiffany sterling silver teapot marked #5960 7121, 3 pints, & 8 cups. It measures 11" x 5 1/2" a...
Category
20th Century Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Sterling Silver Four-Piece Tea and Coffee Service
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A magnificent, fine and impressive antique George V English sterling silver four piece tea and coffee set; part of our silver teaware collection.
This magnificent antique sterling silver tea and...
Category
Early 1900s British Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
English Silver Plate Four Piece Tea / Coffee Service / Exterior Engraved Details
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Elevate your tea & coffee rituals to a level of timeless elegance with our exquisite English silver-plated four piece tea / coffee service, meticulously crafted by the renowned Elkin...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Gold, Silver Plate
Majolica "Cockerel & Monkey" Teapot by Minton
By Minton
Located in Paris, FR
"Cockerel & Monkey Minton Majolica Teapot the protrusive cockerel head with forming the spout, a smiling, like if he was riding the cockerel, is...
Category
Late 20th Century English Victorian Tea Sets
Materials
Majolica
Rafael Teran Brass and Glass Mosaic Modernist Tea Set
Located in Miami, FL
A brass and glass mosaic tea set by Salvador Teran, circa 1970s.
Includes the tray, coffee pot, sugar bowl with lid and creamer.
Category
1970s Mexican Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Brass
Puiforcat (Hermes), Christofle, Faberge - 5pc. French 950 Sterling Tea Set
Located in Wilmington, DE
Direct from Paris, a Stunning 5pc. Antique French 950 Sterling Silver Tea Set by the World's Premier French Silversmiths "Emile Puiforcat" (Current...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Vermeil, Sterling Silver
$20,087 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Set of Five 19th-Century Samson Paris Polychrome Cups & Saucers
By Samson & Cie
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
This refined set of five porcelain cups and saucers originates from the renowned Maison Samson, Paris, celebrated throughout the late 19th century for its exceptional hand-painted po...
Category
19th Century French Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain, Paint
German Hammered Silver 4-Piece Tea & Coffee Set Bauhaus Style Early 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
German silver 4-piece tea and coffee set, beautifully hand-hammered, with wood handles, from the early 20th century and in Bauhaus style, consisting of:
a coffeepot, measuring 12 3/...
Category
Early 20th Century German Bauhaus Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
Kuznetsov Porcelain Tea Set
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Antique Russian Kuznetsov porcelain factory tea set for 6 persons, including 6 cups, 6 saucers, and teapot with cover. Cobalt and gold, Handpainted floral design. No paint loss . Gre...
Category
Early 1900s Latvian Neoclassical Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$1,560 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Set of Antique Japanese Meiji Teacups Bowls Flowers Figures, 19th Century
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
This magnificent tea set from the Meiji period (19th century). 5 cups & 10 saucers.
Additional information:
Material: Porcelain & Pottery
Region of Origin: Japan
Period: 19th centu...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$359 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Contemporary Hand Blown Glass "Bonsai Teapot" Tree Nature Elegant Ceremony Calm
Located in Camisano Vicentino, IT
Introducing the Bonsai Teapot, a stunning hand-blown glass creation by the talented Simone Crestani. This exquisite teapot is a distinguished piece from the captivating Nature Collec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Glass
“Fanning the Fire” Japanese Tetsubin Kettle, c. 1924
Located in Chicago, IL
Decorated with a raised fan motif, this aptly named teapot was used to boil water for traditional tea ceremonies. Known as tetsubin, the kettle’s cast-iron construction is said to ch...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Tea Sets
Materials
Iron
French Porcelain Tete a Tete Tea Set Circa 1875
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Elegant 19th century porcelain in white gold and crimson raspberry. The teapot with lid, sugar bowl with lid, creamer, two tea cups with tray. The tray measures 17 wide, 12.75 deep a...
Category
1870s French Napoleon III Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
20th Century Italian Sterlig Silver Art. Deco' Teaset
By Mario Poli
Located in VALENZA, IT
Three-piece tea set in 925 sterling silver completely handmade.
Teapot: H 23, D 15cm.
The body is round, rounded and shaped with a hammered recess.
The handle and lid are made o...
Category
1990s Italian Art Deco Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
$6,251 Sale Price
20% Off
Art deco Limoges porcelain coffee set
By Limoges
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Art deco Limoges porcelain coffee set
Complete coffee set for 12 people
40 pieces in total
Art deco design
Origin Franca Circa 1940
The coffee set is composed of:
(measurements in ce...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Deco Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$1,360 Sale Price
20% Off
Six Royal Worcester Coffee Cups and Saucers, Harry Davis, circa 1920
Located in New York, NY
Painted in colors with London scenes, the interiors, handles and rims all gilt. Signed H. Davis, painted titles, impressed and printed marks in puce.
Category
1920s English Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Italian Doccia Topographical Porcelain Neoclassical Cup and Saucer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A very fine antique Italian Doccia Topographical porcelain neoclassical cup & saucer.
By Doccia Porcelain Manufactory circa 1820.
With pa...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Blue and White Kang-xi Tea Caddy with Silver Stopper
Located in New York, NY
Blue and white Kang-xi tea caddy with silver stopper. Late 18th century Chinese tea caddy with cranes in landscape with floral sprigs. Dutch silver mounted ...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
Antique Silver Plated Octagonal Tea Caddy with Lapis Lazuli Colored Detail
Located in Tilburg, NL
Antique silver plated tea caddy with Lapis Lazuli colored detail. First half of the 20th century.
Beautiful and wonderfully patinat...
Category
Early 20th Century Tea Sets
Materials
Silver, Silver Plate
French Stoneware Ceramic Coffee Set
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Incredible stoneware coffee set made from France, 1960's. Set includes 1x large coffee pot with lid, 1x sugar bowl with lid, 1x creamer pot without lid, and 2x coffee cups with sauce...
Category
1960s French Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
$375 / set
Antique English Victorian Small Wooden Handle Silver Plated Creamer Teapot
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique English Victorian Small Wooden Handle Silver Plated Creamer Teapot. Circa Early 20th Century. Measurements: 7.75" H x 4" W x 5.75" D.
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Victorian Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Walnut Veneer Parquetry Tea Caddy
Located in Reading, Berkshire
A 19th Century Antique English Victorian Ebonised Walnut Veneer Tea Caddy With Brass Handle & Lining
A Charming tea caddy with decorative walnut veneer parquetry.
A tea caddy is ...
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Brass
$1,306 Sale Price
20% Off
Georg Jensen Viking or Nordisk Sterling Silver Tea Caddy Spoon
By Georg Jensen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique tea caddy spoon.
In sterling silver.
Designed by Georg Jensen for Georg Jensen
In the Viking or Nordisk pattern.
Marked to t...
Category
Early 19th Century Danish Art Deco Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Silver Plated Coffee Set Exclusive Antique 6 Parts Kettle Coffee Pot, Warmer Set
Located in Wembley, GB
Antique Silver-Plated Tea & Coffee Service Kettle, Teapot & Warmer Östberg & L. & C. Keijser Westerås
Elevate your table with this exquisite antique silver-plated t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Tea Sets
Materials
Metal, Silver Plate, Sterling Silver
$1,632 Sale Price / item
25% Off
1920s German Silver Ten Piece Picnic Tea Service - Boxed
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, rare antique German 935 standard silver ten piece picnic tea set/service - boxed; an addition to our silver teaware...
Category
1920s Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
Richard Ginori Late 18th Century Porcelain Tea Pot with Hand Painted Landscapes
Located in Brescia, IT
Richard Ginori Late 18th century porcelain tea pot with hand painted landscapes
This very elegant tea pot was hand painted with views of Italian contrysides landscapes, in fuchsia c...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Roma, Tea Set with Six Contemporary Porcelains with Decorative Design
By Vito Nesta
Located in Milano, Lombardia
La collezione Roma è un'ode alla magnificenza della città eterna. Sullo sfondo dei piatti che raffigurano serigrafie di alcuni dei luoghi più iconici della città - come il Pantheon e...
Category
2010s Italian Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$199 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Italy 19th Century Tuscany Kitchen Copper Water Kettle Pot
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an original artcrafted piece made in Florence Tuscany, Italy in the circa 1890. There is the Florentine lily engraved.
The copper kettle shows ...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Rustic Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Brass, Copper
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.
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