Tea Sets
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
1910s American Arts and Crafts Vintage Tea Sets
Copper
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
1810s British Regency Antique Tea Sets
Silver
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Arts and Crafts Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century German Arts and Crafts Tea Sets
Mohair
1890s English Arts and Crafts Antique Tea Sets
Silver, Sterling Silver
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Turkish Arts and Crafts Tea Sets
Paste, Fruitwood, Oak, Paint
Mid-20th Century Turkish Arts and Crafts Tea Sets
Metal, Brass
1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
1810s British Regency Antique Tea Sets
Silver
1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Late 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Tea Sets
Ceramic
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Pottery
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Tea Sets
Pewter
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
19th Century English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Other
Early 19th Century Austrian Regency Antique Tea Sets
Silver
1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
19th Century British Regency Antique Tea Sets
Sterling Silver, Brass
Late 19th Century French Regency Antique Tea Sets
Earthenware
19th Century British Regency Antique Tea Sets
Wood
1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Pearlware
18th Century British Regency Antique Tea Sets
Brass
Late 19th Century Northern Irish Arts and Crafts Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Russian Arts and Crafts Tea Sets
Silver
1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Earthenware
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 1800s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 20th Century English Regency Tea Sets
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Regency Tea Sets
Silver Plate
Late 19th Century French Regency Antique Tea Sets
Silver, Vermeil
Mid-20th Century Regency Tea Sets
Silver Plate
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Tea Sets
Silver, Sterling Silver
Mid-20th Century Italian Arts and Crafts Tea Sets
Enamel
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Tea Sets
Silver, Sterling Silver
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Tea Sets
Silver, Sterling Silver
1910s English Arts and Crafts Vintage Tea Sets
Earthenware
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
19th Century Austrian Regency Antique Tea Sets
Ceramic, Porcelain
1820s Welsh Regency Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Regency Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
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.