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Tea Sets For Sale
Antique English Victorian Silver Plated Coffee Tea Set, 4 Pc Set
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique English Victorian Silver Plated Coffee Tea Set - 4 Pc Set. Item features (1) coffee pot, (1) tea pot, (1) creamer, and (1) lidded sugar bowl. Circa Early to Mid 1900s. Measur...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
"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
Post Modern Memphis Design Rare Tea Kettle by Rolf Sinnemark for Rorstrand
Located in San Diego, CA
Rare and beautiful ceramic teapot, circa 1980s, Made in Sweden designed by Rolf Sinnemark for Rorstrand highly collectible in great condition no chips or cracks, incredible geometric...
Category
20th Century Swedish Post-Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
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
$306 Sale Price / set
60% Off
Set of 16 Antique Kangxi Period Chinese Porcelain Fishermen Teaset Cup Saucer
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Fantastic and unually large teaset in Blue and white, all of moulded shape.
Sixteen blue and white porcelain cups and saucers, plus one extra dish
All depict fishermen in a watery landscape surrounded by flowery ornamental bands. Not marked.
Additional information:
Material: Porcelain & Pottery
Decoration Type / Colour: Blood & Milk
Region of Origin: China
Emperor: Yongzheng (1722-1735)
Period: 18th century
China Dynasty Period: Qing (1661 - 1912)
Condition: 8 dishes with a hairline, 2 dishes perfect, 7 dishes...
Category
18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$7,274 Sale Price / set
20% Off
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
$335 Sale Price / set
20% Off
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
$360 Sale Price / set
20% Off
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
20th Century Italian Solid 800 Silver Tea-Coffeeset with Tray
Located in VALENZA, IT
Italian tea and coffee service and tray made entirely by hand in the 40s of the 20th century.
The service is round and each piece has 4 cast feet for support.
The body is embossed ...
Category
1940s Italian Baroque Revival Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
$14,264 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
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
Romanov Collection Cobalt and Gilt Porcelain Coffee Service
Located in Worcester, GB
Romanov Collection Cobalt and Gilt Porcelain Coffee Service, Late 20th Century
A striking six-place coffee service from the Romanov Collection, finely crafted in porcelain with rich ...
Category
Late 20th Century Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Caneware creamer and teapot by Wedgwood, c. 1817
By Wedgewood
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Caneware ceramic creamer with impressed basket weave surface decoration, along with matching teapot with lid finial in the form of a sheaf of wheat.
Impressed on the underside: Wedgw...
Category
Early 19th Century British Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
19th C Spongeware Teapot
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful 19th C spongeware pottery teapot. Scallop edges on top and bottom.
Category
Early 20th Century American Country Tea Sets
Materials
Pottery
Yixing Teapot, Qing, c.1900
Located in Savannah, GA
A Yixing teapot, Qing Dynasty, circa 1900.
6 ¾ inches wide by 4 ¼ inches deep by 3 ¾ inches tall
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Qing Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
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
Seletti "Hybrid-Smeraldina" Porcelain Teapot
By Seletti
Located in Doral, FL
From its very first year in 1964, Seletti in Cicognara, Mantova, has followed its principle of professionality service and constant research to strive for betterness innovation and o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$197 / item
Sterling Tea Service Designed by Gio Ponti for Reed and Barton
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A sterling tea service with sterling tray designed by Gio Ponti for Reed and Barton, pattern 440 "Diamond" the tray is #1574. The set consists of ...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
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 & Lead Lining
A Charming tea caddy with decorative walnut veneer parquetry.
A tea cadd...
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Brass
$1,263 Sale Price
23% Off
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
Memphis Silver Plate and Lucite Tea and Coffee Service by Guildart, circa 1980
Located in Atlanta, GA
Indulge in the artistry of the Memphis Movement with this extraordinary coffee and tea service, a rare, expertly crafted creation by renowned silversmith Guildart, Paris, circa 1980....
Category
1980s French Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Metal
Bohemia Royal Ivory service, Germany, 1930s, set of 8
Located in Manzano, IT
Bohemia Royal Ivory service, Germany, 1930s, set of 8
Set of 5 cups with saucers, sugar bowl, milk jug, teapot/coffeepot CUP MEASUREMENTS: H5 X D10.5 SAUCER MEASUREMENTS: D16 MILK CA...
Category
1930s Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
$539 Sale Price
44% Off
1940s Bauhaus Stainless Tea Kettle Pot Style Peter Behrens
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration, a D & S personal tea kettle pot stainless steel. Bauhaus clean modern design style of Peter Behrens. Handle with cane wrap. Stamped at the bottom.
Dimensio...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Tea Sets
Materials
Stainless Steel
$316 Sale Price
20% Off
Tapio Wirkkala for Rosenthal Porcelain Tea Sets
Located in Milano, IT
Rosenthal tea sets made of porcelain designed by Tapio Wirkkala represent the best combination of modern and traditional design. Created in 1969, Ros...
Category
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
$1,244 Sale Price / set
20% Off
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
Paris Porcelain Restauration Style Tea Set, France, Circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Charming Restauration style Paris porcelain tea set with red and gold Amati background, composed of a teapot, five cups with winding handle and their saucer, and a bowl. This set, li...
Category
1880s French Restauration Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Gold
$2,872 Sale Price / set
50% Off
Capodimonte Porcelain, Bronze and Gold Teapot Late 1800s
By Capodimonte
Located in Milano, MI
Capodimonte porcelain teapot, bronze and pure gold, made in the late 19th century
Ø cm 23 Ø cm 14 h cm 30
Capodimonte porcelain is an excellence of Italian craftsmanship, with a ri...
Category
1880s Italian Empire Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Hans Achtziger for Hutschenreuther Selb Demitasse Coffee Set
Located in East Quogue, NY
Decorative white porcelain 'Apart' coffee demitasse set from Hutschenreuther Selb, with 6 cups, 6 saucers, coffee pot, creamer/milk jug, and sugar bowl (15-piece set). German porcela...
Category
1950s German Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
19th C. Spode 44 Pc. Porcelain Tea Set
By Spode
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This Classic 19th century Spode Dessert and tea and coffee service encompasses the beauty of the period as well as the elegant floral decoration. The com...
Category
1850s English Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Bialetti Moka Expresso Machine Italy Post Modern
By Alessi
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration, a vintage Bialetti moka expresso machine. Made in Italy. Stainless steel with brass accents.
Dimensions: 9.5" H x 4" diameter x 6" D
Please visit take a loo...
Category
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Brass, Stainless Steel
Victorian Sterling Silver Spirit Kettle by Barnard & Sons Ltd
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An magnificent, fine and impressive, large antique Victorian English sterling silver spirit kettle made by Barnard & Sons Ltd, an addition to our antique silver teaware collection.
This magnificent antique Victorian sterling silver spirit kettle has a six paneled urn shaped form onto a hexagonal paneled spreading pedestal foot.
The surface to this large spirit kettle is embellished with exceptional bright cut engraved foliate festoons incorporating quatrefoil leaf motifs and suspended from rosette designs to each edge.
The decoration to the body incorporates two oval cartouches, one of which remains vacant.
The cartouche to the anterior surface is embellished with a contemporary bright cut engraved crest of an antelope's head couped, charged on the neck with four mullets in cross, and holding in the mouth a rose, slipped and leaved, displayed below the motto 'Nil extra numerum'- Nothing is beyond reckoning up*.
The upper portion of the kettle is embellished with bands of bright cut engraved undulating borders paralleling the shape of the shoulders.
This antique silver kettle...
Category
1870s Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver, 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
$560 Sale Price / set
20% Off
English Sterling Silver Tea Caddy, Sheffield, 1907
Located in Delft, NL
An English silver tea caddy by Harrison Brothers & Howson, Sheffield 1907.
An oval round shaped silver tea caddy with hinged lid. The caddy raised on a footrim and 4 ball shaped ...
Category
20th Century English Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
Austrian Porcelain Coffee Service, 19th Century, Napoleon III Period
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Austrian porcelain coffee service, 19th century, Napoleon III period.
A beige and gold porcelain coffee service with enamelled bird decorations, Napoleon III period, 19th century, c...
Category
19th Century Austrian Napoleon III Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Silver Plate Five Piece Tea / Coffee Service
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Silver plated five pieces tea and coffee service with exterior floral design details. Each piece is in great condition. Minor wear consistent with age / use. Maker's mark undersigned Reed & Barton "King Francis model number 1650-1654”. Set include Coffee pot 11-3/4 inches. Tea pot 10 inches. Covered sugar pot 7 inches. Creamer 6 inches & tea bag...
Category
Mid-20th Century North American Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
$1,895 / set
Gran Paris by Camusso Sterling Silver Tea Set 5-Piece Griffin Spouts
Located in Big Bend, WI
Gran Paris by Camusso
Exceptional Peruvian Gran Paris by Camusso 5-piece tea set with faux ivory handles and finials and griffin spouts. This set includes:
1 - Kettle on Stand:...
Category
20th Century Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
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
$718 / set
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
Paris Porcelain Tea Service, circa 1860
Located in New York, NY
Comprising 2 pots, creamer (handle restored), covered sugar (finial restored), and 8 cups and saucers.
Category
1860s French Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
English Silver Plate Covered Biscuit Box or Tea Caddy
Located in New York, NY
An English sterling silver plate covered biscuit box or tea caddy with hinged finial lid top, attached claw footed gallery tray, and exterior repou...
Category
20th Century English Empire Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
$780 Sale Price
20% Off
Early 20th Century Georg Jensen Art Nouveau Style ''Blossom'' Sterling Tea Set
By Georg Jensen
Located in Chicago, IL
This exquisite and rare Georg Jensen (1866-1935) tea set is exemplary of the Art Nouveau style gloriously celebrating natural elements, specifically the magnolia blossom. The flower ...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish Art Nouveau Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
English Georgian Neoclassical Sterling Silver Teapot, 1792
Located in New York, NY
English Georgian Neoclassical sterling silver teapot, 1792. Fluted oval with straight sides and truncated ends; tapering and rectilinear s-scroll spout and capped and high-looping st...
Category
1790s British Neoclassical Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Edwardian Quality Wedgwood Jasperware Teapot
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique Edwardian quality Wedgwood Jasperware teapot having a quality silver plated lid and rim decorated in the traditional Wedgwood blue a...
Category
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Tea Sets
Materials
Other
Vintage Porcelain Tea Service Set
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 Restauration Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$1,200 / set
Gold Porcelain Coffee or Tea Cup and Saucer with Butterfly Design
Located in New York, NY
A very beautiful and special porcelain coffee or tea cup and saucer, circa early to mid-20th century. Maybe French or Italian origin. Designer unknow. Both cup and saucer are all-aro...
Category
Early 20th Century European Tea Sets
Materials
Gold
Post Modern Teapot by Peter Langer for Feltman Langer c.1980s
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Post-Modern porcelain teapot designed by Peter Langer for Feltman Langer. It is in the style of and often attributed to Peter Shire. The teapot is asymm...
Category
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Roux-Marquiand French Art Deco Tea-Coffee Set, 1920
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
French Art Deco teay / coffee set by ROUX-MARQUIAND (Lyon), France, 1924. Silverplate metal and noble woods. This tea and coffee service obtained a gold medal at the Salon des Arts D...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
Pair of French Majolica Cups & Saucers Cicada Louis Sicard Circa 1900
By Sicart
Located in Austin, TX
Pair of French Majolica Cups & Saucers Louis Sicard Circa 1950.
Decorated with cicadas on the cups and olives on the cups.
Rare blue colors , usually yell...
Category
Early 1900s French Mid-Century Modern Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Teapot, Exclusive Silver Art Deco English Mid-century Coffee Pot
Located in Wembley, GB
An antique Art Deco tea set and silver-plated teapot beautifully designed and created suit elegant serving. With lid pressed, cast and chased vaulted lid.
Coffee pot, Height 26 cm. S...
Category
1920s British Hollywood Regency Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Metal, Silver, Silver Plate, Sterling Silver, Sheet Metal, Silver Leaf
$494 Sale Price
57% Off
Antique Chinese Porcelain Tea Set, 3 Person, Early 20th C., Hand-Painted
Located in Bastogne, BE
This charming antique porcelain tea set, crafted in China at the dawn of the 20th century.
Hand-painted with exquisite detail and accented ...
Category
1910s Chinese Chinoiserie Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
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
12 Teacups and Saucers Minton Bone China Porcelain Haddon Hall
By Minton
Located in Paris, FR
Set of 12 teacups and with their saucers in Minton Bone China Porcelain. Famous Minton Haddon Hall model designed by John William Wadsworth (1879-19...
Category
Early 20th Century English Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$673 Sale Price / set
25% Off
Set of 2 German Postmodern Teapot or Coffeepot with Cup by Seltmann Weiden
Located in Hamburg, DE
German Postmodern VIP Collection Teapot or Coffeepot with Cup by Seltmann Weiden, Set of 2, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1980 to 1989 This piece has an attribution mark.
Additi...
Category
20th Century German Post-Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Mid-Century German Ceramic Tea or Coffee Pot Series, 1960s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Mid-Century German Ceramic Tea or Coffee Pot Series Hamburg Form 20 Decor Blumenspiel by Lieselotte Kantner for Melitta, 1960s, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1960 to 1969 This pi...
Category
20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Richard Ginori Italian Porcelain Coffee Tea Cup Brown & Gold 1 of 16 Available
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Richard Ginori coffee or tea cup and saucer porcelain set "Contessa" Pattern, Italy.
16 cups set available, each sold separately, 1 cup and one saucer se...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Art Deco Tea Service by Hildegard Delius ar 1930 uranium glaze + cups + plates
Located in Landshut, BY
Designer (execution): Hildegard Delius (1896-1955)
Designer (presumed): Gerhard Meisel (1903-1979)
Manufacturer (collaboration): Keramikfabriken Neuha...
Category
1930s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Materials
Pottery
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
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
German Silver Gilt Tea and Coffee Service, circa 1875
Located in New York, NY
Of antique form and decoration, the neck of the kettle with chased masks with fruit and foliage, the lip of the spout with a stylized mask terminating below with another mask. The li...
Category
1870s Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
Antique Haviland Offner Limoges France Tea Coffee Chocolate Pot Cups Saucers
Located in Dayton, OH
"12 piece Antique Haviland & Co Limoges tea / coffee / chocolate set for E. Offner of New Orleans LA. Features a hand painted pink, turquoise and gild...
Category
Late 19th Century Late Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
$800 Sale Price / set
20% 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
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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