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Tea Sets For Sale
Postmodern Rare Tea Kettle Designed by Michael Graves
Located in San Diego, CA
A Classic postmodern Memphis era design teapot designed by Michael Graves, circa the 1980s, a rare design not many were produced it's in good condition except for a ding on the botto...
Category
20th Century North American Post-Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Stainless Steel
$156 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Silver Plated 5-Piece Coffee or Tea Set
Located in North Miami, FL
Japanese silver plated 5-piece coffee or tea set
Dimensions:
Serving tray, 26.5 wide, 14.5 deep, 1 inch tall
Larger coffee pot, 11.75 inches tall, 12.5 deep, 5.5 wide
Smaller tea...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
$2,900 / set
Richard Ginori Italian Porcelain Espresso Coffee Tea Cup Saucer
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful vintage Italian porcelain espresso coffee or tea demitasse cup and saucer 'Toscana' by designer Richard Ginori, circa mid-20th century, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Country Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Vintage Villeroy & Boch Gallo Design Bone China Tea Set, Floral 1970s, 23 Pc
Located in Bastogne, BE
Rare Vintage Gallo Design Villeroy & Boch 23-Piece Tea Set, West Germany, 1970s
Elevate your tea time with this amazing vintage tea set from Gallo Design by Villeroy & Boch, a testament to the timeless elegance and superior craftsmanship of West German porcelain...
Category
1970s German Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Haviland Limoges Gilt Porcelain Coffee / Tea Service for 12
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Late 20th century Haviland, Limoges France gilt porcelain tea / coffee service for twelve people. Each piece is great condition. Marks (Tower) Haviland Limoges, France undersigned. Alltogether 27 pieces. Set include 12 tea / coffee cups 4" x 2.3". 12 tea / coffee saucers...
Category
Late 20th Century French Tea Sets
Materials
Gold
Modernist Brass Tea Caddy by Hayno Focken
By Hayno Focken
Located in Petworth, GB
Modernist Tea Caddy by Hayno Focken with integral spoon.
Brass
Makers Stamp mark
German
Circa 1930
Height 12cm Diameter 8cm
Spoon: Height 0.5cm. Width 3.5cm. Length 14cm
Category
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Brass
Japanese Meiji Period Cloisonne Enamel Tea Set
Located in Newark, England
Extensively Decorated with Traditional Japanese Images
The Tea Set comprises of fifteen pieces including six cup and saucers, a lidded teapot, a lidded sugar pot and a milk jug. The...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Tea Sets
Materials
Metal, Enamel, Metallic Thread
African Tuareg Silver Pewter Tea Pot from Mauritania
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Vintage African Tuareg Tea pot Mauritania
Mid-20th century Tuareg teapot from Mauritania, Africa, Western Sahara.
Handcrafted of pewter, copper and brass...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mauritanian Folk Art Tea Sets
Materials
Brass, Copper, Pewter
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 set/set consists of a teapot, cream jug and sugar bowl.
Each piece of this service has a circular rounded form onto a circular foot.
The surface of each piece is embellished with impressive chased bamboo stalk ornamentation, on a matte background.
The teapot is fitted with a domed hinged cover ornamented with further bamboo stalk decoration and surmounted with the original, fine and impressive finial.
The teapot and cream jug are fitted with silver handles realistically modelled in the form of bamboo stalks.
The teapot has an exceptional spout ornamented with a continuation of foliate ornamentation.
The antique sugar bowl and cream jug retain the original gilded interior.
Condition
This antique tea service...
Category
1890s Indian Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
Bodum’Ottoni’ Kettle by Carsten Jørgensen 1986
By Bodum
Located in Delft, NL
Bodum’Ottoni’ Kettle by Carsten Jørgensen 1986
Category
1980s Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Metal
Antique Chinese Tea/Coffee Cup Flowers Yonzheng Porcelain
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A nice Imari Rose coffee cup with beautiful flower scene. Qing Dynasty – Qing Period.
Additional information:
Material: Porcelain & Pottery
Region of Origin: China
Emperor: Qianlon...
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$79 Sale Price
45% Off
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
$360 Sale Price / set
28% Off
Tiffany & Co. Antique Repousse Silver Plate Coffee or Tea Service Set
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous antique silverplate tea or coffee service set, including: tea pot, sugar, creamer, bowl, and large service tray.
By Tiffany & Co.
Tray is associated and is marked "Ascot Sheffield Design...
Category
Late 19th Century American Art Deco Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
Postmodern Italian Stainless Steel and Bakelit Bombe Teapot Coffeepot Kettle
By Carlo Alessi
Located in Hamburg, DE
Postmodern Italian Stainless Steel and Bakelit Bombe Teapot Coffeepot Kettle by Carlo Alessi for Alessi, in Flawless conditions. Designed 1950 to 1959 This piece has an attribution m...
Category
20th Century Italian Post-Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Bakelite
Vintage Elkington & Co. Sterling Silver Teapot
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive vintage Elizabeth II English sterling silver teapot made in the George I style; an addition to the silver teaware collection.
This exceptional Elizabeth II English sterling silver teapot has a plain oval rounded form onto an oval domed spreading foot, in the Classic George I style.
The surface of this vintage silver teapot...
Category
1960s English George I Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
Gio Ponti Tea / coffee set from the Parco dei Principi hotel in Rome 1960s circa
Located in Roma, IT
Tea or coffee set designed by Gio Ponti for the Hotel Parco Dei Principi in Rome and produced by the historic Italian manufacturer Fratelli Calderoni between 1950s and 1960s.
This vintage breakfast set consists of 5 pieces:
1 small teapot with built-in filter in the body
1 large coffee maker
1 Water Jug
1 sugar bowl
1 Tray with feet...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate, Nickel
$1,103 Sale Price
20% Off
Lotta Odelius for Sagaform Sweden Retro Teapot
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Marianna Erlikh
Dec 23, 2024, 8:07 PM (5 days ago)
to me
Sagaform Sweden ceramic teapot with lid features abstract geometric design in green and blue palette, inspired by 1950s S...
Category
Early 2000s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
18th Century, Chinese Export Coral and Puce Porcelain Tea Service
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese export porcelain service spectacularly decorated with a smart coral scale ground with panels of puce flowers.
The service com...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Woodbury Pewter Academic Revival Pewter Holloware Teapot, 1952
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Pewter Holloware teapot from Woodbury Pewter. The teapot is an Academic Revival design after a Meridian, Connecticut model from 1820. Stamped on the underside with the maker's mark.
...
Category
1950s American Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Pewter
Vintage Opalescent Pastel Colors Coffee / Tea Set for Eight with Gold Rims
Located in Barcelona, ES
Pastel Colors Opalescent Glass Coffee Tea Set for Eight
Manufactured by Arcopal, France, 1960s.
A highly decorative set of eight Harlequin opalescent pastel colors glass tea or coffe...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Gold Leaf
Limoges coffee service
By Limoges
Located in MADRID, ES
Hand painted coffee set by Limonges. Composed of; 1 bowl, 7 small bowls, teapot, sugar bowl, milk jug and 14 cups with plates.
Category
1930s French Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$713 / set
Raymond Loewy After Dinner Coffee Set for "Rosenthal 2000", 1954
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Grey and white porcelain 20 piece after dinner coffee set Rosenthal 2000 Secunda, coffee server, sugar bowl and creamer and complete set of service with...
Category
1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Art Deco Silvered Tea Pot from" Cafe du Grand Hotel" France
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Antique silver plated on brass collectible French Tea Pot from" Cafe du Grand Hotel" France.
Art Deco style made by Boyron Lyon France.
Circa 1940.
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
Samuel Alcock Matched Solitaire Porcelain Tea Set, Pink with Flowers, ca 1836
Located in London, GB
A matched solitaire tea set consisting of a teapot with cover, a sucrier with cover, a milk jug and a matched trio consisting of a teacup, a coffee cup and a saucer. With pink ground...
Category
1830s English Rococo Revival Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$980 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Just Andersen, Denmark, Vintage Polished Pewter 1940s Hot Toddy Cup #1289
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
Just Andersen, Denmark, vintage polished pewter 1940s hot toddy cup #1289
Simple and effective Danish design,
circa 1940s
Stamped and numbered 1289
Measu...
Category
1940s Danish Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Pewter
Victorian Sterling Silver Spirit Kettle
By Creswick & Co. 1
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, antique Victorian English sterling silver spirit kettle; an addition to our antique silver Teaware collection...
Category
1850s English Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Berndt Friberg, Blue 3-piece Stoneware Tea Set, Gustavsberg Studio, Sweden, 1958
Located in Malmö, SE
A beautiful 3-piece stoneware tea set stoneware with amazing hare’s fur glaze. Tea pot, cream jug and sugar bowl.
Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gu...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
$1,897 Sale Price / set
20% Off
ROYAL CROWN DERBY - Imari Pattern #2451 - Tea Cup & Saucer - U.K. - C.1912-16
Located in Chatham, ON
ROYAL CROWN DERBY - Imari Pattern Number 2451 - Antique bone china tea cup with fluted sides (circa 1912) and an antique saucer (circa 1916) - elaborat...
Category
Early 20th Century English Victorian Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
$206 Sale Price
30% Off
Alice in Wonderland Rabbit Teapot, Handmade in Italy, Luxury Handcrafted 2021
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
Our artisan's pieces are a dream come true, as in Disney's Alice in Wonderland.
Ceramic tea service are completely hand-crafted and painted with love and care.
Sometimes we all just need to have a little stress relief. We want to escape the ordinary days, made of work and pain.
Give yourself a little gift with those fabolous creations full of poetry and fairytales.
Our artist models every single detail with patience and love, to bring us back in a world made of dreams and feelings.
The collection recalls Alice in wonderland and Cinderella, taking us to a trip in our childhood, a world that lives silently inside, giving us the strength to always believe...
Category
2010s Italian Baroque Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
$3,329 Sale Price / item
20% Off
Antique Doccia Porcelain Italian Neoclassical Topographical Chocolate/Coffee Pot
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique topographical porcelain coffee or chocolate pot.
By the Doccia porcelain manufactory circa 1820.
With painted enamel topograph...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Moroccan Metal Silver Plated Tea Pot
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Vintage classic aged Moroccan silver plated tea pot. Handcrafted in Morocco.
Vintage Moroccan teapot from the older areas of the brass market of ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Moroccan Islamic Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
Antique George III Sterling Silver Tea-Coffeeset ivory Handles & Tray 1798-1800
By Charles Asprey and Charles Asprey junior 1
Located in VALENZA, IT
Rare George III Sterling Silver Tea-Coffeeset ivory Handles plus tray 1799-1800
Hallmarked in London in 1798-9 by Charles Asprey, this superb, George III, Antique Sterling Silver Tea...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
French porcelain Coffee / Tea Service for 10 People
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Nice coffee or tea service from the first half of the 20th century for 10 people.
Beautiful porcelain quality, white with fine gold edging and gold patterns on each piece.
High Porce...
Category
Early 20th Century Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$249 Sale Price
25% Off
Japanese Art Deco Tea Set for Four People
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Art Deco tea set made of the chary wood .Artisan antique work and hand painted
Weight of the set is about 1.5 Lb .( 750 grams ).
Category
1930s Japanese Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Fruitwood
$1,875 / set
Lino Sabattini for Christofle, Modernist Teapot, 1960s
Located in København, Copenhagen
Lino Sabattini (1925-2016) for Christofle. Modernist teapot in silver plated metal, circa 1960.
In very good condition.
Stamped: Christofle Italy / ...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
20th Century Italian Baroque Sterling Silver Engraved Tea-Coffeeset with Tray
Located in VALENZA, IT
Important sterling silver tea and coffee service.
The service was entirely handmade in the Baroque style.
The body of the coffee pot, teapot, milk jug and sugar bowl is round and h...
Category
1990s Italian Baroque Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
$13,127 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Royal Grafton ‘Malvern’ 38 piece tea service, 1950s, Floral Gilt Trim
Located in Worcester Park, GB
The pattern features a white body with a scalloped edge, multicoloured floral sprays, a blue and yellow geometric border, and gilt trim The Royal Grafton...
Category
1950s English Romantic Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Japanese Porcelain, Satsuma Tea Set, 23 Pieces
Located in Milano, IT
...
Category
1950s Japanese Japonisme Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$2,259 / set
Carl Auböck II Teapot, model 3879 Austria 1950's
Located in Chicago, IL
Carl Auböck II Teapot, model 3879 Austria 1950's
Handcrafted in Austria during the 1950s for Werkstätte Carl Auböck. This exquisite piece combines form and function, showcasing a uni...
Category
1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Copper
Vintage Coffee/Tea Set Porcelain Teapot, Creamer, Sugar Bowl & Tray Bmf Bavaria
Located in Bastogne, BE
Elegant New Metal Coffee/Tea Set.
Porcelain Teapot, Creamer, Sugar Bowl & Tray By BMF Bavaria, Germany, 1970.
Coffee Pot With removable thermal hood to keep warm insulated wit...
Category
1980s German Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Metal
20th Century Egyptian Tea Set Arabic with Silver Plate and Pot Bowls Porcelain
Located in Epfach, DE
Egyptian tea set for 6 people with original pot. Like the plate, it is made of solid silver. The stand is very finely crafted and originally belongs to it. The bowls are made of porc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Egyptian Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
Brass Tea Set, Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Brass tea set is an original decorative object realized in Europe in the early 20th century.
The set is realized in brass with chiseled decorations.
The set includes: one tea ...
Category
Early 20th Century European Tea Sets
Materials
Brass
$225 Sale Price / set
50% Off
Antique Geisha Tea Set, Japanese, Handpainted, Ceramic, Teapot, Cups, Service
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique Geisha tea set. A Japanese, handpainted ceramic teapot and cups service for four, dating to the early 20th century, circa 1920.
Hos...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Other Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Dragon Trainer Teapot, Handmade in Italy, Luxury Handcrafted, 2021
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
Our artisan's pieces are a dream come true, as in Disney's Alice in Wonderland.
Ceramic tea service are completely hand-crafted and painted with love and care.
Sometimes we all just need to have a little stress relief. We want to escape the ordinary days, made of work and pain.
Give yourself a little gift with those fabolous creations full of poetry and fairytales.
Our artist models every single detail with patience and love, to bring us back in a world made of dreams and feelings.
The collection recalls Alice in wonderland and Cinderella, taking us to a trip in our childhood, a world that lives silently inside, giving us the strength to always believe...
Category
2010s Italian Baroque Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
$3,757 Sale Price / item
20% Off
Vintage Japanese “1000 Faces” Tea Cup and Saucer Set - 8 Pieces
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Vintage Japanese "1000 Faces" Tea Cup and Saucer Set featuring 8 intricately decorated pieces with vibrant colors and golden accents, perfect for collectors.
We sell items as acqu...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Webster & Son Victorian Silver Plated Etched Tea Set - 3 Pc Set
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique Webster & Son Victorian Silver Plated Etched Tea Set - 3 Pc Set. Circa Early 20th Century. Measurements: 5.5" H x 10.25" W x 6.75" D.
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Victorian Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
Victorian Sterling Silver Teapot with Wooden Handle
Located in VALENZA, IT
Victorian sterling silver teapot with wooden handle.
A very stylish and handsome Antique Victorian Sterling Silver teapot, having a very plain round straight-sided body, a straight t...
Category
1850s English Other Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th Century Toucan Porcelaine Cremier by Hermès Paris
By Hermès
Located in Sofia, BG
Serving piece for milk or cream from the iconic porcelain collection Toucan by HERMES in great condition.
Category
Late 20th Century European Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Six English Turkey Cups and Saucers, Wild Turkey Flying by Johnson Brothers
Located in Austin, TX
A set of six cups and saucers featuring the Wild Turkey - Flying brown and white transfer-ware pattern by the celebrated English pottery firm, Johnson Brothers.
With authentic mid...
Category
20th Century English Tea Sets
Materials
Earthenware, Pottery
First Period Dr. Wall Worcester Antique Porcelain Tea Cup Coffee Cup & Saucer
Located in Katonah, NY
This First Period Worcester Porcelain trio is hand-painted in the Old Japan Star Pattern.
It comprises a teacup, coffee cup, and saucer made in 18th-century England circa 1770.
The s...
Category
Late 18th Century English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
1910s Sterling Silver Three-Piece Tea Service
By Jenkins & Timm
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
This exceptional antique George V sterling silver tea service has been modelled in the Queen Anne style.
The lower portion of each piece is embellished with embossed batwing decoration.
The upper portion of each piece of this silver tea set is plain and unembellished.
The teapot is fitted with a hinged hallmarked cover embellished with further batwing decoration to the domed portion and is surmounted with the original carved painted wood and sterling silver fluted, cushion shaped finial.
The teapot retains the original angular carved painted wood handle with a plain scrolling thumbpiece.
The teapot is fitted with a swan necked spout ornamented with further embossed batwing decoration to the lower portion.
The cream jug and sugar bowl have plain angular sterling silver handles ornamented with plain moulded decoration to each handpiece.
Condition
This antique Sheffield silver tea set...
Category
Early 20th Century English Queen Anne Tea Sets
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
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
$332 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Tea / Coffee Porcelain Set By Pirkenhammer Brezova, 1950s
By Pirkenhammer
Located in Zohor, SK
Beautiful set of tea /coffee set in white porcelain by Pirkenhammer Brezova, 1950s. Original label visible on each piece. The set is of a white porcelain with blue details on rims. T...
Category
1950s Czech Bohemian Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$304 Sale Price / set
60% Off
Silver tea set, ca 1900
Located in Delft, NL
Silver tea set, ca 1900
A silver tea set with a teapot, sugar bowl and a milk jug in an oval shape with a scalloped pattern and is lightly hammered. Very elegant. It is silver marke...
Category
Early 20th Century European Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
$3,269 / set
19th Century English Tableware Tea/Coffee Service
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Early 19th century English Sheffield silver plate tableware five pieces tea/coffee service. The coffee/tea features intricate exterior floral details and paw. The set include a tall ...
Category
Early 1800s English High Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
Amazing Eggshell Porcelain Coffee-Tea Service with Lithophane from Japan, 1940s
Located in Bastogne, BE
Charming 24k gold Hand Painted Japanese Tea Set, Japanese Garden Landscape and Geisha Girls. 1940s.
Japanese Eggshell Porcelain Tea Set ...
Category
1940s Japanese Japonisme Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Wilhelm Wagenfeld Original Bauhaus Glass Teapot
Located in Sharon, CT
Classic original Schott Jeana Wagenfeld Teapot signed.
Category
1920s German Bauhaus Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Glass
Ceramic Tea Set by Mas for Memphis Milano, 1980s, Set of 7
Located in Catania, CT
Very good Vintage condition with normal trace of age and use for this white, red and black ceramic tea set with the original tray. Signed by MAS and produced in Italy during the 80s.
Category
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Metal
$1,598 Sale Price
20% Off
1930 Jean Puiforcat Modernist Tea Coffee Egoiste Set Sterling Silver Rosewood
Located in Boulogne Billancourt, FR
Art Deco Modernist tea and coffee egoiste set in sterling pure silver and rosewood by Jean E. Puiforcat created in the 1930s.
Service including:
- a coffee pot : 9 cm x 9 cm
- a tea...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vintage Japanese Thousand Flower Satsuma Porcelain Demitasse Tea Coffee Set
Located in Dayton, OH
Vintage Japanese Satsuma porcelain demitasse tea or coffee set featuring the thousand flower design with gold accents. Includes tea pot with ...
Category
Late 20th Century Japonisme Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$490 Sale Price / set
30% Off
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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