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Tea Sets For Sale
Style: Louis XV
Style: Regency
Teacup Trio Barr Flight & Barr Maroon and Gilt Neoclassical ca 1812
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful true trio made by Barr, Flight & Barr, consisting of a teacup, a coffee can and a saucer. The set has a deep maroon ground and a very gracious gilt neoclassical b...
Category
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Limoges Porcelain Tea and Coffee Set.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
" Limoges Porcelain Tea and Coffee Set. "
Porcelain tea or coffee service, composed of 4 cups and saucers, a teapot and a tray, 20th century.
h: 2...
Category
20th Century French Louis XV Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Antique George III (1819) Sterling Silver Three Piece Tea Service
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Georgian English sterling silver three piece tea service/set made by Joseph Angell I; an addition to our silver teaware collections.
This...
Category
1810s British Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
Spode Porcelain Tea Service, Imari Tobacco Leaf Pattern 967, Georgian ca 1810
By Spode
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning tea service made by Spode in about 1810, consisting of a large teapot with cover, a milk jug, a sucrier with cover, a slop bowl, a saucer dish and 4 teacups with s...
Category
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
New Hall Hybrid Hard Paste Teacup, Palm Tree patt. 484, Georgian ca 1810
By New Hall
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful teacup and saucer made by New Hall around the year 1810. The set is decorated in the very desired but rare palm tree pattern with the number 484.
We also have a ...
Category
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Spode Porcelain Teacup, Imari Tobacco Leaf Pattern 967, Regency ca 1810
By Spode
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful teacup and saucer made by Spode in about 1810. The set is decorated with the famous Imari Tobacco Leaf pattern 967, which was first introduced by Spode in 1806.
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Category
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Spode Porcelain Teacup Trio, Lavender Blue with Flower Sprays, Regency ca 1815
By Spode
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful "true trio" consisting of a teacup, a coffee cup and a saucer, made by Spode in about 1815. It is decorated with pattern 2234 with a striking lavender or periwinkle blue border and finely painted flower sprays.
In the late 18th and early 19th Century a "true trio" is how cups and saucers were sold; as you would never drink tea and coffee at the same time, why invest in an extra saucer?
Josiah Spode was the great pioneer among the Georgian potters in England. Around the year 1800 he perfected the bone china recipe that has been used by everyone ever since, and he was also the leading potter behind the technique of transferware, making it possible for English potters to replace the import of Chinese china that had come to an end around that time, with their own. This was fundamental to a thriving industry that would last for about 150 years and provide half the world with their tableware.
This set is made in the famous "London" shape, which was brought out by Spode in 1812 and was quickly copied by all other makers. It then remained the most popular shape for about 10 years. The set is potted in fine white porcelain - by the year 1810 Spode had perfected his recipe for bone china and it became beautifully smooth, white, thin and translucent.
All three items are marked with the red hand painted SPODE mark and the pattern number 2234.
CONDITION REPORT The set is in excellent antique condition without any damage, repairs or crazing. There is some minimal wear as visible in the pictures...
Category
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
New Hall Hybrid Hard Paste Teacup Trio, Elephant Pattern, Regency ca 1810
By New Hall
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful true trio made by New Hall around the year 1810. The set is decorated in the very desired but rare Elephant pattern.
A true trio is how cups and saucers were sol...
Category
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Spode Teacup and Saucer, Red, Gilt with White Chrysanthemum, Regency ca 1810
By Spode
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful teacup and saucer made by Spode around 1810. The set is shaped in the "bute" shape and decorated with a bright Neoclassical pattern of a warm red ground with gilt...
Category
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Teacup Flight Barr & Barr, Regency Imari Pattern, ca 1815 (2)
Located in London, GB
This is a colourful teacup and saucer made by Flight Barr & Barr around the year 1815. The set is decorated with a bright Imari design in the Regency taste.
This teacup would have f...
Category
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Flight Barr & Barr Teacup, Regency Imari Pattern, ca 1815
Located in London, GB
This is a colourful teacup and saucer made by Flight Barr & Barr around the year 1815. The set is decorated with a bright Imari design in the Regency taste.
This teacup would have f...
Category
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Teacup and Milk Jug, Pale Yellow, Gilt and Flowers, ca 1824
Located in London, GB
A teacup and saucer with milk jug in the “melted snow” shape with double drop handles, pale yellow ground with rich gilt and cobalt blue acanthus pattern and finely painted flower re...
Category
1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Solitaire Tea Set, Cobalt Blue, Gilt Vines and Flowers, ca 1825
Located in London, GB
A solitaire tea set consisting of a teapot with cover, a milk jug and a small cup and saucer, in “melted snow” shape, the cup with double drop handle, with deep cobalt blue ground, r...
Category
1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Puiforcat (Hermes), Christofle, Faberge - 5pc. French 950 Sterling Tea Set
Located in Wilmington, DE
Direct from Paris, a Stunning 5pc. Antique French 950 Sterling Silver Tea Set by the World's Premier French Silversmiths "Emile Puiforcat" (Current...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Vermeil, Sterling Silver
19th Century Antique George III Sterling Silver Tea Urn London 1813 Paul Storr
By Paul Storr
Located in London, GB
A truly stunning silver hemispherical tea urn decorated with gadroon borders for highlights. The body has a stylish upper girdled wire and a ‘serpent’ themed tap. The lion mane ha...
Category
1810s British Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
Samuel Alcock Porcelain Solitaire Tea Set, Cobalt Blue, Gilt, Landscapes, ca1825
Located in London, GB
A solitaire tea set consisting of a teapot with cover on a stand and a trio consisting of a teacup, a coffee cup and a saucer, in “half orange” shape with deep cobalt blue and yellow...
Category
1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Samuel Alcock Porcelain Teacup, White with Flower Sprays, ca 1823
Located in London, GB
A teacup and saucer in the “half orange” shape, white with simple gilt rim and beautiful hand painted flower sprays
Pattern unknown but similar to 1082
Year: ca 1823
Size: cup diameter 10cm (4”), saucer diameter 14.2cm (5.5”)
Condition: excellent, some rubbing to gilt
There are several items available in this design, please see group image and ask for more info if interested.
The Samuel Alcock factory was operative in Staffordshire between 1822 and 1856, after which it was bought by Sir James Duke and Nephews. The factory started as a partnership between the young Samuel Alcock and the older Ralph Stevenson, who provided the factory and capital. Alcock quickly took the factory to great heights, building one of the biggest factories of its time. Alcock jumped on the new Rococo Revival fashion and served a huge new middle class market. The reason we now don't hear much about Samuel Alcock porcelain...
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1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Outstanding Molded Painted Pearlware Teapot & Cover, Possibly Wilson
Located in Downingtown, PA
Outstanding Molded Painted Botanical Pearlware Teapot & Cover,
Possibly Robert Wilson,
Circa 1795
A fabulous molded and painted teapot decorated ...
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Pottery
Early 19th Century Regency Period Flame Mahogany Tea Caddy Box
Located in High Wycombe, GB
Regency period early 19th century flame mahogany tea caddy box with swing handle complete with an original hallmarked sterling silver George III tea caddy spoon
Comes with working key, item opens to reveal a fitted interior with twin caddies & central crystal mixing bowl which is a later addition.
A tea caddy is a box, jar, canister, or other receptacle used to store tea. When first introduced to Europe from Asia, tea was extremely expensive, and kept under lock and key. The containers used were often expensive and decorative, to fit in with the rest of a drawing-room or other reception room. Hot water was carried up from the kitchen, and the tea made by the mistress of the house, or under her supervision.
As the use of the jar waned and the box became more popular, the provision of different receptacles for green and black tea...
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19th Century British Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver, Brass
Antique Regency Quality Rosewood Tea Caddy
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique Regency quality rosewood tea caddy having a quality carved rosewood lift up top opening to reveal two lidded tea compartments, original escutcheon
A quaint piece displaying...
Category
19th Century English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Other
Bloor Derby Porcelain Breakfast Cup with Plate, Gilt with Purple Flowers, Ca1825
By Derby, Bloor Derby
Located in London, GB
This is a very charming "breakfast" teacup and saucer with a plate, made by Derby / Bloor Derby between 1806 and 1825. It is likely that the set was potted between 1806 and 1825, then decorated and brought to the market around 1825.
A breakfast cup is a large teacup...
Category
1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Coalport hand painted creamer
Located in East Geelong, VIC
This very attractive hand painted porcelain creamer is by John Rose Coalport and is decorated with cartouches of colourful floral sprays, outlined in gildin...
Category
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Austrian Silver Coffee Pot with Spirit Burner
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Austrian silver coffee pot with spirit burner; an addition to our Georgian silver teaware collection
This exceptional antique Austrian silver coffee pot has a plain cylindrical form.
The coffee pot body is plain and encompassed with an applied moulded girdle to the upper portion.
This exceptional coffee pot is fitted with the original push fit cover, encompassed with a palmette leaf style border to the rim.
The cover is surmounted with an impressive cast silver foliated finial.
This coffee pot is fitted with an elongated handle overlaid with the original interwoven wicker, strategically interlaced to produce a segmented braided design; this finely detailed feature indicates the high quality of the piece.
The pot detaches from the original hallmarked silver stand, supported by four impressive scrolling legs.
The circular frame and base of the stand are encompassed with further palmette decorated borders.
The stand bears a circular receiver to the centre, accommodating the original detachable rounded spirit burner.
This hallmarks to this 19th century coffee pot...
Category
Early 19th Century Austrian Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
Ridgway hand painted and gilded slop bowl
Located in East Geelong, VIC
This John and William Ridgway hand painted and gilded slop bowl is decorated with their pattern 2/1041 where each of the almost paisley shaped gilt edged cartouches contain sprays of...
Category
1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Ridgway hand painted and gilded sucrier on stand
Located in East Geelong, VIC
This hand painted and gilded porcelain sucrier on stand is by John and William Ridgway. Each of the almost Paisley shaped gilt edged cartouches on the lid, the side and the stand con...
Category
1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Regency 19th Century Gien French Faience Earthenware Chocolate Set
Located in west palm beach, FL
A stunning vintage Regency Chocolate set. Made by the coveted Gien group and marked on the bottom. A charming hand painted set open deep rich colors. Acquired from a Palm Beach estat...
Category
Late 19th Century French Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Earthenware
A Hand Painted Apple Shaped Tea Caddy
Located in High Wycombe, GB
A 20th Century Hand Painted Hinged Lidded Tea Caddy In The Shape Of An Apple With A Metal Patinated Stalk
Category
19th Century British Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Wood
Joseph Stubbs Pearlware Tea bowl, Blue and White with Swans, Regency, circa 1825
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful and very rare tea bowl and saucer made by Joseph Stubbs in about 1825. The bowl is quite large and made of pearlware, and has a beautiful transfer printed blue an...
Category
1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Pearlware
A Sarcophagus Shaped Regency Rosewood Tea Caddy With Separate Tea Compartments
Located in High Wycombe, GB
A Sarcophagus Shaped Regency Rosewood, Brass Tea Caddy With Two Separate Tea Compartments and Individual Handled Lids, Centred on Four Bun Feet Circa 1700's
Great patina embellishi...
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18th Century British Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Brass
New Hall Tea Service for Six, Elephant Pattern 876, Regency ca 1810
By New Hall
Located in London, GB
This is spectacular full tea service for six made by New Hall around the year 1810. The service consists of a teapot with cover, a sucrier with cover, a milk jug, six trios each consisting of a teacup, a coffee can and a saucer, a cake plate (saucer dish) and a slop bowl. The set is decorated in the super-charming and popular but very rare Elephant pattern...
Category
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Ridgway Porcelain Teacup and Saucer, Blue Flowers and Gilt, Regency, Ca 1825
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful teacup and saucer made around 1825 by Ridgway. It is decorated with the very popular pattern no. 2/1000: a cobalt blue ground with rich gilding and monochrome blu...
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1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
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
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
Coalport Teacup, White Blind-Moulded Floral Dulong Pattern, ca 1817
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful teacup and saucer made by Coalport in about 1817. The teacup is blind-moulded in the "Dulong" pattern and painted with little floral sprays.
We also have a pla...
Category
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Silver Plate FB Rogers Tea Set Amston Round Serving Tray Platter
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage silver plate FB Rogers tea set amston round serving tray platter. Item features fb rogers tea pot creamer, and lidded sugar bowl, 13" round footed se...
Category
Mid-20th Century Regency Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
Spode Porcelain Teacup Trio, Red Imari Dollar Pattern, Regency, ca 1810
By Spode
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful orphaned teacup made by Spode in about 1810. It bears a beautiful Japanese-inspired Imari pattern.
Spode was the great pioneer among the Georgian potters in England. Around the year 1800 he perfected the bone china recipe that has been used by British potters ever since, and he was also the leading potter behind the technique of transferware, making it possible for English potters to replace the Chinese export china, which had come to an end around that time, with their own designs. This was fundamental to a thriving industry that would last for about 150 years and provide half the world with their tableware. Spode porcelain is regarded as one of the highest quality porcelains around; for a soft-paste porcelain it is surprisingly hard and fine, and has a wonderful bright white colour.
The pattern on this can is called "Dollar" pattern, a very famous pattern that was used by English potters in the 18th and early 19th Century. It is obvious why it is called “dollar” - but its origin is less obvious! It is thought that this pattern was derived from a very old Chinese pattern depicting a tree with elaborate foliage that hides a Chinese character representing longevity or happiness. Traditionally, this went with a an image called “Taotie”, which was used on very ancient bronze vases...
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Early 1800s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
New Hall Hybrid Paste Porcelain Teacup, Neoclassical Cobalt Blue Gilt, ca 1810
By New Hall
Located in London, GB
This is beautiful teacup and saucer made by New Hall around the year 1810. The set is in decorated in the sophisticated Neoclassical style of the Regency era.
We also have an entire tea service in the same pattern available, please see separate listing.
The New Hall factory started as a cooperative of several Staffordshire potters making use of the porcelain license of Bristol Porcelain...
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1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Silver Vermeil Tea / Coffee Regency Style by Boin Taburet Paris
By Boin-Taburet
Located in Tarry Town, NY
This exquisite, beautiful and rare French silver vermeil coffee and tea service was crafted by one of the most celebrated goldsmiths in Paris. Fa...
Category
Late 19th Century French Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver, Vermeil
Antique Purple and Gold Porcelain Tea Set for Eight Persons
By Wedgwood
Located in London, GB
A very fine Crescent Ware porcelain eight place tea set, finely decorated with gold over royal purple ground, retailed by Phillips of New Bond Street, London.
England, circa 1908–192...
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Early 20th Century English Regency Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Flight Barr & Barr, Peach Gilt Strawberries, Regency, circa 1815
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful coffee can and saucer made by Flight, Barr & Barr between 1813 and 1840, but most probably, circa 1815. It has a peach ground with a very charming gilt strawberry...
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1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Sevres Style Paris Porcelain Gilt Tea Cup Saucer Alexander Great Dante
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An exceptional French Paris porcelain tea cup complete with its original undertray, of outstanding quality. First quarter of the nineteenth century.
Exquisitely painted with Class...
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19th Century Austrian Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Wilcox International Silver Co Tea Set Serving Tray and More, 5 pc Set
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Wilcox International Silver Co Silver plate tea set serving tray and more - 5 pc Set. Item features (1) serving tray, (1) coffee pot, (1) t...
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Mid-20th Century Regency Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
Spode Orphaned Porcelain Saucer, Chinoiserie Gilt Potted Flowers, Regency ca1820
By Spode
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful deep orphaned saucer made by Spode around 1820. The saucer is decorated with a gorgeous Chinoiserie pattern of a group of potted flowers in gilt and grey. The sau...
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1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Derby Porcelain Teacup Trio, Green with Red Flowers, 1800-1810
By Derby
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful "true trio" made by the Derby Porcelain factory between 1800 and 1810. The trio is decorated in an overglaze green ground with cheerful red flowers.
In the late 18th and early 19th Century cups and saucers...
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Early 1800s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Italy Richard Ginori Mid-18th Century Porcelain Sugar Bowl Pink Landscapes
Located in Brescia, IT
Richard Ginori mid-18th Century porcelain sugar bowl with pink landscapes drawings, hand made in Italy
This very elegant Richard Ginori porcelai...
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Mid-18th Century Italian Louis XV Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Minton Porcelain Teacup Trio, Bath Embossed White with Sepia Roses, Regency 1830
By Minton
Located in London, GB
This is a rare and beautiful trio consisting of a teacup, coffee cup and saucer, made by Minton in circa 1830.
Minton was one of the pioneers of English china production alongside...
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1830s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Coalport Porcelain Teacup Trio, Orange with Roses, Regency, circa 1820
Located in London, GB
On offer is a beautiful and rare "true trio" made by Coalport in about 1820. The trio has a beautiful Regency shape with heart shaped handles. This pattern is unusual and very rare....
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1820s Welsh Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Sterling Silver English Regency by Dominick & Haff, 134.1 TO
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique tea set by Dominick & Haff offers sterling silver construction with engraved foliate, patera and reed elements and includes six pieces as ou...
Category
Early 20th Century Regency Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
Silver Coffee and Tea Set, Belgium, 19th Century
Located in Belmont, MA
Silver coffee and tea set, Belgium 19th century
The design of this beautiful coffee and tea set is inspired by the 18th century French Regence st...
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1890s Belgian Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
Swansea Porcelain Tea Set, Tea & Breakfast Cup White and Gilt, Regency ca 1820
Located in London, GB
On offer is a beautiful porcelain tea set made by Swansea around the year 1820, which was the Regency era. The set consists of a white and gilt decorated teacup and a larger "breakfa...
Category
1820s Welsh Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Antique English Sterling Silver Three-Piece Tea Service in the Regency Style
By Solomon Royes
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional and impressive antique George IV English sterling silver Regency style three piece tea service/set; an addition to our silver teaware collection.
This antique George IV sterling silver three piece tea service consists of a teapot, cream jug / creamer, and sugar bowl.
Each piece of this impressive set has a rectangular rounded form onto four Regency style feet.
The plain body of each piece is encircled with a band of embossed and chased decorated stylised floral motifs on a matte background.
The teapot is fitted with a flush hinged, domed hallmarked cover; the flush hinge indicates the fine quality of this service.
The cover retains the original sterling silver rounded rectangular finial embellished with chased stylised rose and leaf decoration, encompassed with a bud border.
The teapot, cream jug and sugar bowl are fitted with C scroll handles, ornamented with applied chased acanthus leaf decorated thumbpieces.
Each component of this service is supported by four Regency style bracket style feet ornamented with a shaped claw foot, accented with scrolling leaf decoration and stylised floral motifs.
The cream jug and sugar bowl retain the original gilded interiors.
Condition
This antique Regency tea service...
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1820s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Russian Brass Samovar Lamp
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Large Russian samovar tea urn mounted as a lamp. Exceptional quality and detail with oversized turned wooden handles on each side and a tall double light h...
Category
20th Century Russian Regency Tea Sets
Materials
Brass
Early 20th Century Five-Piece Louis XV Style Sterling Silver Tea and Coffee Set
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine early 20th century five-piece Louis XV style sterling silver tea and coffee service set. The finely chased ovoid shaped ...
Category
Early 20th Century Argentine Louis XV Tea Sets
Materials
Silver
Early 19th Century Spode Porcelain Coffee Can All Hand Gilt Pattern, circa 1810
By Spode
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a good example of an English George III period, porcelain, coffee can (cup), made by Spode in the early 19th century, circa 1810.
The can is nominally straight sided and h...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Rosewood Tea Caddy Pyramid Shape Top Lid
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mother-of-pearl and rosewood 19th century tea caddy lacquer box in very good condition.
Category
19th Century English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Rosewood
Barr Flight & Barr Teacup Trio, Maroon and Gilt Neoclassical ca 1812
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful true trio made by Barr, Flight & Barr, consisting of a teacup, a coffee can and a saucer. The set has a deep maroon ground and a very gracious gilt neoclassical band around the rims.
In the early 19th Century cups and saucers...
Category
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Materials
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.
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