Tea Sets
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tea Sets
Ceramic
2010s Italian Tea Sets
Porcelain
1780s English George III Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
1970s British Georgian Vintage Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
20th Century Modern Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
20th Century Italian Post-Modern Tea Sets
Aluminum
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Earthenware, Pottery
Late 19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Porcelain
1980s German Post-Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Ceramic
Mid-20th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Gold Leaf
Mid-20th Century French Napoleon III Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Antique Tea Sets
Pewter
20th Century American Post-Modern Tea Sets
Stainless Steel
2010s Italian Baroque Tea Sets
Ceramic
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Ceramic
Late 19th Century Japanese Late Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 20th Century French Louis XIV Tea Sets
Porcelain
19th Century German Neoclassical Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Edwardian Tea Sets
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Baroque Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Northern Irish Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
2010s Italian Tea Sets
Silver
1940s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Late 20th Century Dutch Colonial Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 20th Century English Queen Anne Tea Sets
Silver
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Tea Sets
Metal, Enamel, Metallic Thread
1790s French Louis XVI Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
1940s Italian Baroque Revival Vintage Tea Sets
Silver
1890s German Rococo Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain, Cedar
1920s German Bauhaus Vintage Tea Sets
Glass
1980s Italian Rococo Vintage Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
Late 20th Century Japonisme Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 20th Century European Tea Sets
Silver
Early 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 20th Century French Empire Revival Tea Sets
Gold Leaf
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Glass, Opaline Glass
Early 20th Century English Victorian Tea Sets
Ceramic
20th Century Japanese Post-Modern Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 1900s Danish Art Nouveau Antique Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
Late 19th Century Late Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
1910s Danish Empire Vintage Tea Sets
Silver
1950s German Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Porcelain
1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Stainless Steel
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Steel
1970s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Copper
2010s Italian Baroque Tea Sets
Ceramic
1930s English Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
Late 19th Century American Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Silver Plate
2010s Italian Baroque Tea Sets
Ceramic
Mid-18th Century Austrian Baroque Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century English Art Deco Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
19th Century English Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Ceramic
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century American Adirondack Antique Tea Sets
Silver
1950s Japanese Japonisme Vintage Tea Sets
Porcelain
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.