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Tea Sets For Sale
Riley Coffee Cup, Gilt Chevron Zigzag Pattern, Regency, circa 1815
By J&R Riley
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful coffee cup and saucer made by Riley in about 1815, decorated in a striking gilt chevron pattern with a rather psychedelic zigzag effect.
The John & Richard Ril...
Category
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain Tea Trio Set GDR Made in GDR Tea Porcelain Set, Vintage
Located in Bastogne, BE
A rare collection tea trio set “Firebird” made in GDR.
Goldrelief manufacture!
Porcelain tea set!
The set includes three items.
The price per ...
Category
20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Pink Etruscan Majolica Shell and Seaweed Ceramic Teacup and Saucer Set of 2
By Griffin, Smith & Hill
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A set of two Etruscan majolica teacups with matching saucers. Each piece is glazed in a beautiful pink, purple, green, brown and blue. The tea saucers (or b...
Category
20th Century American High Victorian Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Art Deco Bauhaus Hutschenreuther Coffee Pot Hammered WMF Metal Cozy 1.4 Liter
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Art Deco Bauhaus Hutschenreuther coffee pot hammered WMF metal cozy this handsome vintage coffee pot marked Hutschenreuther Bavaria Germany is s...
Category
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Metal
Antique George III Quality Copper Kettle
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique George III quality copper kettle having a quality antique George lll copper kettle with a shaped handle and spout lift of lid.
Measures: H 31 x W 31 X 22 cm
Date 1800.
Category
Early 1800s English George III Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Copper
Silver and Silver-Plate Tea and Coffee Set by Cardeilhac
Located in London, GB
Silver and silver plate tea and coffee set by Cardeilhac
French, Early 20th Century
Tray: Height 7cm, width 73cm, depth 45cm
Pot on st...
Category
Early 20th Century French Rococo Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
Mid-Century Modern Stainless Steel Tea Service by Arne Jacobsen for Stelton
Located in Savannah, GA
This four piece Classic Mid-Century Modern stainless steel tea set is by Arne Jacobsen for Stelton, Denmark. The set includes a tray with handles, a lidded tea pot with a wooden hand...
Category
1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Stainless Steel
Yixing Zisha Teapot, Bamboo Handle & Flower Finial, Signed, China, 20th C
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage Yixing Zisha teapot - featuring a bamboo form handle and spout with a chrysanthemum flower finial to the lid - impressed seal marks to the base an...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Pair Ringtons Teapots
Located in South Salem, NY
A pair of English early 20th C. Edwardian tearoom teapots for Ringtons Tea Merchants in their iconic blue and white Willow pattern. Wear consiste...
Category
Early 20th Century English Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
20th Century Brass Teapot
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
20th century brass teapot.
By unknown manufacturer, Spain.
In original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a beautiful ...
Category
1940s Spanish Moorish Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Brass
Jacques Migeon Grey Stoneware Ceramic Tea Pot La Borne 1970 Design Unique Piece
Located in Neuilly-en- sancerre, FR
Jacques Migeon - La Borne
20th grey stoneware ceramic tea pot
Unique handmade piece
French mid century design
Signed under the base
Original perfect condition
Heigh...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Japanese Meiji Period Cloisonne Enamel Sake Pot
Located in Newark, England
Fine Japanese Meiji period cloisonne enamel Sake pot. The Sake pot of rounded form with with clean edges profusely decorated with blossoming flowers throughout upon a black ground ba...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Metal, Enamel
German Meissen Porcelain Swan Service Pattern Part Coffee Service, 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
After the models by Johann Joachim Kändler and Johann Friedrich Eberlein, in low relief with two swimming swans among bulrushes with a crane in flight above, upon a spiral shell mold...
Category
20th Century German Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
English Georgian Silver Mounted Black Basalt Teapoy with Classical Figures
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A finely made English Georgian later silver mounted black basalt teapot decorated with classical winged cherub designs to either side and dating from around 1810. The teapot has a decagon shaped body with a large raised loop pouring handle with thumb rest and with a straight angled spout mounted with a silver end. The teapot has a raised castellated rim molded in low relief with leaf patterning repeated to the panels forming the body of the teapot with either side with a low relief winged cherub design one with an arrow and pedestal and the other leaning against a tree. Both are set within a raised oval surround and the teapot has a pierced domed filter to the body end of the spout. The teapot has a hinged fitted silver cover and has an impressed 5 mark to the base. The cover and spout made from heavy gauge silver were...
Category
1810s English Georgian Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
English Sterling Silver Six Piece Edwardian Style Tea Service by Barker Brothers
Located in Savannah, GA
Six piece tea service consisting of coffee and tea servers with wooden handles, small footed tray, sugar and creamer and waste bowl. From old, well establis...
Category
1950s English Edwardian Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
12 +1 DW Karlsbader Wertabeit Germany Porcelain Tea or Coffee Cups & Saucers
Located in Gardena, CA
12 +1 DW Karlsbader Wertabeit Germany Porcelain Tea or Coffee Cups & Saucers
circa 1940. A white ground with gilt and platinum to the edge with an ornate foliate design. Marked D....
Category
20th Century German Art Deco Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Ceramic Tea & Coffee Pot Set by Hall's
Located in Bradenton, FL
A ceramic tea and coffee pot set in the Autumn Leaf pattern by Hall's. This pattern was produced exclusively for Jewel Tea Company and was discontinued in 19...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Rustic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
"Bombè" Carlo Alessi 1945 Italian Design Steel Metal Tea and Coffee Set
By Alessi, Carlo Alessi
Located in Brescia, IT
Carlo Alessi
1945 design, Made in Italy.
Stainless steel handles and knobs in applewood.
The set includes coffee pot, 2 tea pots, milk jug, sugar bowl and oval tray.
First edition with the old mark "Alfra...
Category
1940s Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Metal, Brass
Teapot, "Lilja" "Lilly", Bo Fajans, Sweden, 1940s, Mid-Century Modern Vintage
By Bo Fajans
Located in Stockholm, SE
A stunning teapot designed at Bo Fajans in Gefle, Sweden and of the model "Lilly" that is super rare to find today. The teapot is 15.5 cm (6.2") high and about 23,5 cm (9.4") long. I...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Rosenthal, Germany, Set of Three Large Teacups and Matching Porcelain Saucers
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Rosenthal, Germany, a set of three large teacups and matching porcelain saucers. Thin white porcelain with gold decoration.
1903.
In excellent condition...
Category
Early 1900s German Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Millie Taplin Art Deco Wedgwood Floral Painted Cup & Saucer
By Wedgwood
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine Art Deco Wedgwood floral cabinet coffee can and saucer by renowned designed Millicent (Millie) Jane Taplin (British, 1902-1980) and dating f...
Category
1930s English Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Stoneware
19th Century Wedgwood Etruria Drab Stoneware Smear-Glazed Teapot
By Wedgwood
Located in Delft, NL
19th Century wedgwood Etruria drab stoneware smear-glazed teapot
A wedgwood teapot in Drab stoneware smearglazed green with raised relief, model 15...
Category
19th Century English Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Stoneware
H&R Daniel Coffee Cup, White, Grey with Printed Flowers, Rococo Revival, ca 1838
By H&R Daniel
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful coffee cup set made by H&R Daniel in about 1838. The cup is quite large and has a beautiful bell shaped shape and the pattern number 6676.
The H & R Daniel por...
Category
1830s English Rococo Revival Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Wedgwood Drabware Sugar Bowl and Stand England, circa 1825
By Wedgwood
Located in Katonah, NY
Wedgwood made this drabware sugar bowl and stand in Staffordshire, England, in the first quarter of the 19th century, circa 1825.
The design is simple and elegant, and the decoratio...
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Earthenware
6 Sets of Tea Cups with Saucers & Plates, "Lilja" "Lilly", Bo Fajans, Sweden
By Bo Fajans
Located in Stockholm, SE
6 sets of teacup, saucer and a cake plate designed at Bo Fajans in Gefle, Sweden and of the model "Lilly" that is super rare to find today. The cake pl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Antique George III Quality Copper Kettle
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique George III quality copper kettle having a quality antique George III copper kettle with a shaped handle and spout with a lift off lid.
Measures: H 28.5 x W 26 x D 22cm
D...
Category
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Copper
Arthur Stone Sterling Silver Arts & Crafts Hammered 3-Piece Demitasse Set
By Arthur Stone
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Stone, hand hammered sterling silver 3-piece demitasse set in Arts & Crafts style from the early 20th century. This elegant set exhibits the attention to geometric, curvilinea...
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Tea Sets
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Tiffany Edwardian Classical Sterling Silver Hot Water Kettle on Stand
Located in New York, NY
Edwardian Classical sterling silver hot water kettle on stand. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York, ca 1908. Ovoid with flutes and ornamental border at rim comprising stylized flowers ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Edwardian Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
Mid-19th Century Gaudy Welsh Tea Set
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Mid-19th Century Gaudy Welsh tea set - pot, cream & covered sugar. English porcelain, Staffordshire district. Molded bodies with lush scrolling leaves. Old spout repair; light staini...
Category
Mid-19th Century Other Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Painted Porcelain Tea Set Signed Edouard Marcel Sandoz for Theodore Haviland
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Painted porcelain tea set signed Edouard-Marcel Sandoz for Theodore Haviland Limoges. Art Deco period, France, circa 1920. All pieces are sig...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
"Bonsai Side Plate" Hand Blown Glass Side Plate by Simone Crestani
Located in Camisano Vicentino, IT
Bonsai Side Plate
Hand-Blown Glass Side Plate by Simone Crestani
Bonsai Side Plate is one of the pieces from the Nature Collection.
"A little side plate to complete your tea ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Glass
Andlovitz Guido Design for Lavenia Italy/Laveno Set of Four Cups with Plates
Located in Biella, IT
Andlovitz Guido design for Lavenia Italy/Laveno set of four cups with four plates
good condition for the set except two little defect in two cups that you...
Category
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Antique English Silverplate Coffee Pot
Located in Malibu, CA
Silver plate coffee tea pot. Item features curly silverplate handle, square attached lid, sits on four graceful feet. Clean lines, quality craftsmanship. Circa early 1900s.
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
Collection of Three Chinese Porcelain Blue & White Tea Pots
Located in Sheffield, MA
Collection of 3 Chinese Export Porcelain blue & white tea pots. Treat yourself to a cup of tea or serve a guest with individual teapot or use them as dec...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Lebanon, Coffee Set with Six Contemporary Porcelains with Decorative Design
By Vito Nesta
Located in Milano, Lombardia
In Lebanon collection a different landscape depicts the local coasts, ruins, and architecture in black and white, with a sophisticated rim decoration that showcases blueprints of tra...
Category
2010s Italian Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
13-Piece Vintage Japanese Tea Set
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage sumatsu serving set hand painted with maple leaves and birds / Made in Japan circa 1960s
1 tea pot, width 7 inches, height 4 inches, depth 6 inches
4 plates, diameter 6.75 in...
Category
20th Century Japanese Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Blossom Pattern 4 Piece Tea & Coffee Set c. 1945-77
By Georg Jensen
Located in London, GB
A magnificent vintage Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Four Piece Tea & Coffee Set in the classic Jensen Blossom Pattern. The set includes a Teapot, a Coffee Pot, a Cream / Milk Jug & a Sugar Bowl. The Teapot, Coffee Pot & Cream Jug each have a shaped pale wooden handle.
Made in Copenhagen, Denmark by Georg Jensen in c. 1945 - 77.
Approx. Height Coffee Pot - 20.5cm
Approx. Height Tea Pot - 13.8cm
Each piece of the Tea & Coffee Set has a Jensen Silver mark.
This Jensen Silver Tea Set...
Category
20th Century Danish Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pale Pink & Grey Johann Haviland Tea Set
Located in Stamford, CT
Tea set marked Johann Haviland Bavaria 30140 41. Seven cups and saucers, seven dessert plates, one serving plate, teapot with lid, and sugar bowl wit...
Category
1930s Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Pompei, Six Contemporary Decorated Tea Cups with Plates
By Vito Nesta
Located in Milano, Lombardia
The porcelain collection Pompei by Grand Tour By Vito Nesta brings the Grottesche wall decoration back to life in a contemporary key. Ancient designs are taken and declined on the di...
Category
2010s Italian Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 6 Vintage Mugs with Colourful Circle Pattern, 1970s
Located in Praha, CZ
Set of six colourful mugs with circle pattern. Glazed ceramic mugs made in Poland by Lubiana in the 1970s.
Category
Mid-20th Century Polish Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Vintage Blue and White Porcelain Teapot with Scrolling Foliage Decor
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese vintage blue and white porcelain teapot from the mid 20th century. Created in China during the midcentury period, this lovely...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
French Vintage Empire Style Porcelain Coffee Service with a decor of Flowers
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A stunning French Empire style coffee service, dating from around 1950, and comprising a coffee pot, six cups and saucers, a lidded sugar bowl and a cream jug. Crafted from white and...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Twin-Handled Antique English Silver Plated Samovar, London, Late 19th Century
Located in London, GB
A twin-handled English silver plated samovar
English, Late 19th century
Measures: Height 43cm, width 33cm, depth 33cm
This magnificent piece is a large silver plated and bone ha...
Category
Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Six Piece Bachelor Tea and Coffee Service
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver six piece bachelor tea and coffee service; an addition to our silver teaware collection
This exceptional antique Victorian six piece sterling silver tea service / set consists of a spirit kettle, teapot, coffee pot, cream jug, sugar bowl and tea caddy.
The pieces of this antique tea and coffee set have a circular baluster shaped form.
This set benefits from a matching oval cylindrical tea caddy; often with time such a piece would be detached from a service.
The surface of each piece is embellished with alternating horizontal panels of impressive chased simplified trellis patterns, leaf motifs and rosette designs.
The upper rim of each piece is encompassed with an applied moulded decorated border.
The spirit kettle, teapot, coffee pot and tea caddy retain the original hinged hallmarked covers, which feature a continuation of the aforementioned chased decoration.
Each teaware cover retains the original cast sterling silver finial.
The centre of the tea caddy cover incorporates an oval cartouche ornamented with a bright cut engraved coronet and monogram initials.
The teapot and coffee pot are fitted with the original hallmarked cast sterling silver handles, embellished with chased ornamentation and plain scrolling thumbpieces.
The spirit kettle is fitted with a large scrolling cast sterling silver handle, ornamented with scrolling leaf designs and impressive scrolling sockets.
The fine and impressive kettle is supported on the original cast hallmarked detachable three-legged stand fitted with a locking pin and security chain.
The stand is ornamented with further chased patterns, accented with scrolling leaf leg brackets to three tapering, scrolling legs and leaf decorated feet.
The detachable hallmarked spirit burner is plain and unembellished, with an applied border.
The spirit kettle, coffee pot and teapot have cast sterling silver swan necked spouts, each ornamented with panels of scrolling leaf and floral decoration to either side.
The cream jug and sugar bowl are fitted with sterling silver C shaped handles, reflecting the design of those to the teapot and coffee pot.
The tea caddy, cream jug and sugar bowl retain the original gilt interiors.
The underside of the tea kettle features the retailer's mark 'Hunt Roskell Late Storr & Mortimer' and the registration number '4852'.
This exceptional Victorian tea and coffee set was were made by the London silversmiths John Hunt & Robert Roskell and John Samuel Hunt between 1864 and 1868, whereas the tea caddy was crafted in 1875 by Henry William...
Category
1860s British Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Tea Set for 9 Person, C. Tielsch, 1890s, Germany
Located in Bastogne, BE
Exquisite porcelain antique tea set.
The end of the XIX century!
C. Tielsch, Germany.
Tableware for 9 people.
31 subjects
Hand-painted.
I have p...
Category
1890s German Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Whieldon Creamware Earthenware Pottery Teapot & Cover
Located in Downingtown, PA
Staffordshire Whieldon-type creamware teapot and cover,
circa 1765-1775
The Whieldon-type cream earthenware teapot has a moulded design of grape vines and large grape leaves to t...
Category
1760s English Georgian Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic, Creamware, Pottery
20th Century Czech Demitasse Coffee Set
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Demitasse coffee set, 2nd quarter 20th century, Czechoslovakia. Comprised of the pot, creamer, covered sugar and 2 cups (1 with tiny chip on rim) and ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Red And Gold Limoges Porcelain Coffee Service Empire Style Early 20th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Elegant coffee service of empire style of the beginning of the 19th century. Made of Limoges porcelain, the service is composed of 10 cups, 10 saucers, a coffee pot, a milk jug and a...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
French Faience Yellow Ground Pot-de-creme Set with Platter, circa 1890
Located in New York, NY
Marked "X" underneath probably for Moustiers, France. Comprising 10 cups and covers and one platter.
Category
1890s French Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Faience
Quimper Faience Teapot with Breton Woman
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous Quimper Faience Teapot with the lid. Breton peasant woman in virtually unused condition. Can be parcel posted. More pieces to follow.
Category
1980s French French Provincial Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Faience
Porcelain Art Deco Teaset for 10 Persons Made by Tuscan England Model Plant
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
Beautiful Art Deco porcelain tea set from the English brand Tuscan. The service has a nice pink color and is decorated with flowers and fine gold-coloured accents. The name of the model is Plant. The set is in very nice condition. No chips and no hairlines. The gold-coloured accents are still nicely intact. The set is composed as follows:
2 Serving dishes 23 cm wide.
10 Cups and saucers, the cups are 7 cm high and Ø8 cm.
10 Pastry plates...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Meissen Germany Tischchenmuster Porcelain Cup and Saucers, circa 1735
Located in Gardena, CA
An attractive pair of Meissen Tischchenmuster tea cups and saucers. Hand painted florals the central area of the cup and to the center of the saucers. Meissen marks to the underside,...
Category
18th Century German Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain Tea or Coffee Set, Rosslau China Blau
Located in Chorzów, PL
Porcelain set, Rosslau China Blau.
Breakfast set from the Hermann Schomburg & Söhne Porzellan Rosslau manufacture, China Blau collection. Very good condi...
Category
1980s German Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Germany Kakiemon Dragon Hand Painted Porcelain Coffee or Chocolate Pot
Located in Gardena, CA
Meissen Germany Kakiemon Dragon Hand Painted Porcelain Coffee or Chocolate Pot. A white ground with hand painted Kakiemon style pink bodies of dragons to either side, florals and rib...
Category
20th Century German Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
20th Century Italian Solid Silver Sugar Bowl
Located in VALENZA, IT
The sugar bowl was made entirely by hand in hammered and shaped 800 silver in the late 18th century style.
The horizontal handles, embellished with a wood finish, were made with the...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Other Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
Futurist Tea Set in Brown Ceramic by Enzo Bioli for Il Picchio, Italy, 1960s
By Enzo Bioli
Located in Rome, IT
Futurist tea set in brown ceramic by Enzo Bioli for Il Picchio.
The set is composed of six cups with 6 saucers, 1 sugar pot, 1 tea pot and 1 milk pot.
Made in Italy in the 1960...
Category
1960s Italian Futurist Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Bohemian Tea Set in Porcelain & Gold, Czechoslovakia 1950s
Located in Zohor, SK
Beautiful tea and coffee set in white porcelain with gold marks as a decoration. Produced in Czechoslovakia in Nova role, original mark still visible. Original catalogue mark aproved...
Category
1950s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Gold
Raymond Loewy for Rosenthal ‘Form 2000' Coffee Pot, Designed 1954, White Ceramic
Located in London, GB
Raymond Loewy and Richard Latham for Rosenthal, 1954
‘Form 2000’ Coffee Pot
A lovely example of this design classic
White ceramic with gold edging
Exce...
Category
1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
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.
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