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Material: Ceramic
Il Viaggio di Nettuno Pink Mug by GINORI 1735
Located in Milan, IT
Inspired by Luke Edward Hall’s love of Greco-Roman mythology, the collection "Il Viaggio di Nettuno" (Neptune's voyage) represents an unconventio...
Category
2010s Italian Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Minton Rare Set Three Georgian Shell Printed Porcelain Coffee Cups
By Minton
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare set of three Georgian antique porcelain coffee cups printed with shells by renowned makers Minton and dating from around 1800. The coffee cans are of cylindrical shape with lo...
Category
Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Mid-Century German Tea or Coffee Pot by Heinrich Löffelhardt for Arzberg, 1960s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Mid-century German tea or coffee pot by Heinrich Löffelhardt for Arzberg, 1960s This piece has an attribution mark.
Additional information:
Materials: Porcelain
Color: Blue
Styles: ...
Category
20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Japanese Lithophane Geisha porcelain coffee set Blue Dragon, 1950s
Located in Miklavž Pri Taboru, SI
A magnificent Blue Dragon coffee set: 10 beautiful antique cups and saucers, a coffee pot, a sugar bowl with a lid, and a cream jug.
These beautiful lithophane cups were first create...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Traditional Antique Japanese Porcelain Tea Set, circa 1950
Located in Barcelona, ES
Antique tea set including tea plates, tea cups and tea. Hand painted in the traditional Japanese style. Made by an unknown manufacturer in Japan. Original Japanese origin s...
Category
1950s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Porcelain cups and saucers from Royal Albert
By Royal Albert
Located in Delft, NL
Porcelain cups and saucers from Royal Albert
A set of eleven porcelain cups and saucers made by Royal Albert, England.
Royal Albert was founded
by Thomas Clark Wild, ca 1894.
The Royal Albert is known for its fine quality Bone China, England
two small cups and saucers of the "Serena" model from before 1977
two cups and saucers, large and small, model Chelsea Bird 1950s-70s
small cup and saucer model "Sweet Violets" 1960s-70s
two cups and saucers small and large from the "Moss Rose" model before the 1960s-70s
small cup and saucer, Model Blue Blossom, 1988
large cup and saucer model "Lady...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen porcelain Rich Court Dragon cups and saucers, Germany 1960s
Located in Delft, NL
Meissen porcelain Rich Court Dragon cups and saucers, Germany 1960s
Meissen porcelain cups and saucers in box with the Rich Court Dragon pattern.
The six p...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Antique French Sevres Porcelain Neoclassical 8 Piece Tete-A-Tete Tea Set 1900
Located in Portland, OR
A very fine antique eight piece 'Sevres' porcelain Tete-A-Tete tea service, Paris, circa 1900.
The set having a blue ground with finely hand-painted panels of Neoclassical scenes of...
Category
Early 1900s French Neoclassical Revival Antique Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
1960's French Ceramic Coffee Set by Alain Maunier
By Vallauris
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Incredible ceramic coffee set made by French ceramic maker Alain Maunier in Vallauris, 1960's. Set includes 1x large coffee pot with lid, 1x sugar bowl with lid, 1x creamer pot witho...
Category
1960s French Vintage Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Meissen porcelain Rich Court Dragon cups and saucers, Germany 1960s
Located in Delft, NL
Meissen porcelain Rich Court Dragon cups and saucers, Germany 1960s
Meissen porcelain cups and saucers in box with the Rich Court Dragon pattern.
The six p...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Tea Service Flash One Dorothy Hafner Rosenthal Studio-Line Germany, 1980s
By Rosenthal
Located in Berlin, DE
Luxurious porcelain dinnerware set, flash one, by Dorothy Hafner for Rosenthal Studio-Line,
Germany, 1980s.
12x coffee or tea cups.
12x ...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Totem Elephant Mug with Lid by GINORI 1735
Located in Milan, IT
This mug with lid (cc 400) is an elegant way to enrich an everyday ritual with exquisite allure and a unique design. Part of the Totem Collection, this superb piece of functional dec...
Category
2010s Italian Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage ULIM Limoges Porcelain Tea and Coffee Set – 41 Pieces
By ULIM Limoges
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
This beautiful 41-piece tea and coffee set is part of the ULIM collection, a classic and highly sought-after design from Limoges, known for its fine French porcelain. Adorned with a ...
Category
20th Century French Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain, Paint
Yates Tea Service, Cobalt Blue, Gilt and Flowers patt. 1038, ca 1825
Located in London, GB
This is beautiful tea service consisting of a teapot with cover, a plate, a slop bowl, four teacups on saucers and four coffee cups on saucers. The service was made by the Yates fact...
Category
1820s English Regency Antique Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Japanese Porcelain Tea Pot Bamboo 1960
Located in Paris, FR
This is a Japanese Tea Pot made around 1960s in Showa era.
It is made with porcelain and the wrist is made with wood and bamboo.
Dimensions:
20.5 x 1...
Category
Late 20th Century Japanese Showa Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
James Dudson Antique Pewter Mounted Salt Glazed Ceramic Teapot
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine quality early Victorian bullet shaped salt glazed teapot with pewter mounted cover by James Dudson and dating from around 1850. This exce...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Jacob Petit Paris Porcelain Tea Set with Gilt and Colorful Rococo Decoration
By Jacob Petit
Located in Boston, MA
This is a fabulous Jacob Petit Old Paris Porcelain solitaire museum quality tea set. It is profusely decorated with gold, cartouches of flowers and many colors in the rococo style, w...
Category
1840s French Rococo Antique Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Missoni Italian Porcelain Coffee Espresso Cup and Saucer
By Missoni
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful colorful porcelain coffee espresso or demitasse tea cup and saucer from the iconic Italian luxury Maison Missoni, circa early...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
DeSimone of Italy, Hand Painted Ceramic Mid-Century Cup And Saucer c1960
By DeSimone
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
DeSimone of Italy, ceramic cup and saucer, hand decorated with girl holding flowers
A fun piece of Italian dash
Circa 1960's
Signed DeSimone, Italy
Cup: Height 2 inch, Diameter 4.25 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
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 Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Lotta Odelius for Sagaform Sweden Retro Teapot
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Marianna Erlikh
Dec 23, 2024, 8:07 PM (5 days ago)
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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 Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
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 Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Vienna 19th Century Porcelain Cup and Saucer
Located in Newark, England
Decorated with a Female Portrait
From our Ceramics collection, we are pleased to offer this Vienna Cup and Saucer. The Vienna Cup and Saucer with a brown iridescent glaze decorated ...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian High Victorian Antique Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Massimo Materassi for Mas Italy coffee set 1984 Memphis Milano
By MAS Italia
Located in Antwerpen, Antwerp
Coffee set by Massimo Materassi designed for MAS Italy in 1984. Materassi graduated in 1979 at the University of Florence, Faculty of Architecture. After a b...
Category
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Richard Ginori Contessa Porcelain Coffee or Tea Cup, 12 Avail.
Located in New York, NY
** 12 cups available, each sold separately, as per listing.
Vintage Italian Richard Ginori 'Contessa' gold and terracotta rust-red porcelain coffee o...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Gold
Luigi Colani Zen Full Tea Set and Plates, Stoneware, Friesland, Germany, 1970s
By Friesland Ceracron, Luigi Colani
Located in Vienna, AT
A beautiful tea set made of black glazed stoneware, designed by Luigi Colani in 1973. Executed by Porzellanfabrik Friesland, Germany. All items are in excellent condition. The set co...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
Cinderella Tea Service Teapot and Six Cups, Pink & Gold, Handmade in Italy, 2021
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
Our artisan's pieces are a dream come true, as in Disney's Cinderella.
Ceramic tea service are completely hand-crafted and painted with love and ...
Category
2010s Italian Baroque Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Art Deco Tea, Coffee, Dessert Set, Porcelain, Victoria, Czechoslovakia, 1930s
Located in Bochum, NRW
Delightfully angular pure Art Deco porcelain tea / coffee and dessert serving set for 5 by Victoria, Czechoslovakia.
Comprising: jug, sugar bowl, milk jug, serving plate, 5 cups wi...
Category
1930s Czech Art Deco Vintage Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
1950's French Ceramic Coffee Set from Vallauris
By Vallauris
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Incredible ceramic coffee set made by French ceramic maker Charles Voltz in Vallauris, 1950's. Set includes 1x large coffee pot with lid, 1x sugar bowl with lid, 1x creamer pot with ...
Category
1950s French Vintage Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Minton Teacup Quartet, Bath Embossed, Green Flowers patt.38, ca 1830
By Minton
Located in London, GB
This is an elegant teacup quartet consisting of a small plate, a teacup, a coffee cup and a saucer, made by Minton in about 1830. The set is decorated with the beautifully hand paint...
Category
1830s English Rococo Revival Antique Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
ROYAL CROWN DERBY - Imari Pattern #2451 - Tea Cup & Saucer - U.K. - C.1913-50's
Located in Chatham, ON
ROYAL CROWN DERBY - Imari Pattern Number 2451 - Vintage bone china tea cup with fluted sides (replacement - circa 1950's) and an antique sau...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Victorian Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Richard Ginori Italian White & Gold Coffee or Tea Cup, circa 1960s, 8 Avail
Located in New York, NY
Very beautiful vintage Italian white porcelain with gold gilt coffee or tea cup(s) by designer Richard Ginori, Italy, circa mid-20th century, circa 1960s. Colors include: gold gilt a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Classical Roman Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Gold
1930s Wedgwood Lustreware Tea Cups & Saucers, Set of 6
By Wedgwood
Located in Stamford, CT
Set of six 1930s Wedgwood lusterware tea cups and saucers. Overall silver floral motif on bone China background. Set includes 6 tea cups and 6 saucers, 12 pieces total.
Each piece i...
Category
1930s English Edwardian Vintage Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Ceramic Set Form 3000 'Sicilia' by Arzberg, 1970
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning 11-piece porcelain tea/coffee set 'Sicilia' form 3000 ceramic set by Hans Theo Baumann for Arzberg Porzellan, Germany. The set contains a tea/coffee pot with lid, a small ca...
Category
1970s German Post-Modern Vintage Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
English stoneware tea pot by Castleford, c. 1810
By Castleford Pottery
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Castleford smear glaze feldspathic stoneware covered tea pot with cobalt blue enamel striping and applied Classical decoration throughout.
English, circa 1810.
Category
Early 19th Century British Antique Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Stoneware
Vintage 4-person Tea Set, Japanese, Ceramic, Teapot, Cups, After Arita, Art Deco
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage 4-person tea set. A Japanese, ceramic teapot and cups service in the manner of Arita ware, dating to the late Art Deco period, circa 1940.
Delightfully decorated t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Art Deco Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Meissen Acanthus Leaf Mocha Teacup & Saucer 1st Choice White & Gold
Located in Dayton, OH
Meissen Porcelain, blue sword mark 1st choice, Pfeiffer period 1924-1934, acanthus decor, model no. Y33
Dimensions:
5.75" x 3" (Diameter x Height)
Category
Early 20th Century Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
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 Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Chinoiserie Bird Shaped Teapot Hand-painted Blue White Decor
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Vintage ceramic or porcelain small teapot is sculpted in shape of a bird or a phoenix, with large head, long wings, rounded tail, and ornate handle on the back. The teapot features traditional blue on white Chinoiserie decor of abstract graphic motifs; the tail, tips of the wings, beak, plumage, and handle are accentuated with solid blue. The teapot is fitted with small round lid; the open beak serves as a pourer.
The teapot is signed on the bottom by the artist or studio; due to the convenient size it can be used either as a milk or syrup pitcher, or as a teapot for one or two people. It is in very good vintage condition, and can be used either as serving piece in tablescape or as interior decor. The playful, unusual teapot...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
19th Century French, Boudois & Bloch Floral Gold-Trimmed Cup & Saucer Set
Located in Atlanta, GA
An exquisite example of 19th-century French porcelain artistry, this luxurious cup and saucer set bears the mark of the renowned Parisian atelier Boudois & Bloch. Known for their exc...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Colorado Ceramic Teapot, by Marco Zanini from Memphis Milano
Located in La Morra, Cuneo
The Colorado teapot in ceramic was originally designed by Marco Zanini in 1983.
Marco Zanini was born in Trento in 1954. He graduated in architecture ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Labirinto Nero Mug with Lid GINORI 1735
Located in Milan, IT
This mug with lid (cc 400) is an elegant way to enrich an everyday ritual with exquisite allure and a unique design. Part of the Labirinto Collection, designed in 1926 by iconic desi...
Category
2010s Italian Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Derby Porcelain Tea Bowl, Artichoke Pattern in Turquoise, Georgian ca 1785 (4)
By Derby
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful tea bowl and saucer made by Derby in about 1785. The set has the very amazing and desired "artichoke" moulding and a bright turquoise ground with the white artic...
Category
1780s English George III Antique Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Franciscan, Desert Rose Tea Set
Located in New Orleans, LA
A true American Classic, Franciscan Desert Rose dinnerware has graced dining tables since 1941, including Air Force One as chosen by Jackie Kennedy and t...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Earthenware, Pottery
Sevres Hand Painted Matched Porcelain Cabinet Cup and Saucer
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A fine antique French matched hand painted porcelain cabinet cup and saucer painted with various scenes by Sevres and dating from the latter 19th century. ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Multicolor Rainbow Coffee Porcelain Set with Gold Rims, Spain 1950s
Located in Barcelona, ES
Demitasse Tea or Espresso Coffee Set, service for 6, Porcelain
An elegant and colorful porcelain gold rimmed demitasse coffee service for six. Spain, 1950s
Eye-catching multicolor gl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Gold Leaf
Midcentury Modern German Blue & White Porcelain Coffee or Tea Set by Rosenthal
By Rosenthal
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful German porcelain coffee or tea cup set, with creamer and sugar, in white with touches of gold and blue. Set includes six cups, one creamer and one sugar bowl with lid, al...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Tea Service "Flash On" by Dorothy Hafner, Rosenthal Studio-Line Germany, 1980s
Located in Stockholm, SE
Tea Service "Flash On" by Dorothy Hafner, Rosenthal Studio-Line Germany, 1980s. 40 pieces of fantastic coffee/tea service. The iconic Post-Moden, Memphis pattern...
Category
1980s German Post-Modern Vintage Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Napoleon III Style Porcelain De Paris Coffee/Tea Service For 12 People-28 Pieces
Located in Prato, Tuscany
We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects.
Valuable and particular served in fine French porcelain in Napoleon III style; it is composed of 12 cups with a plate, a milk jug, a sugar bowl without a lid in the shape of a small cup so that it can contain sugar cubes or cookies, and two round trays with handles...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Napoleon III Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Prince Charming Teapot, Handmade in Italy, Luxury Handcrafted Design 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 Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Art Deco Atelier Primavera Tea Set, France, 1930s
Located in Milan, IT
Pair of Art Deco Atelier Primavera tea set, France, 1930s
Plate measurements diameter 16 x height 2cm.
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Kutani Tea Service, Japanese, Porcelain, Teapot, Cup & Saucer, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique Kutani tea service. A Japanese, porcelain 6 person teapot and cups set, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900.
Superb Japanese tea service...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Late Victorian Antique Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Limoges France Demitasse Tea Cup and Saucers Set Porcelain 1930
By Limoges
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Limoges France Tea or coffee Cups and Saucers Set Porcelain circa 1930.
Limoges French set of 4 tea Cups and 3 Saucers Set Porcelain 1930 Fine China...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XIV Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century, KPM Berlin Porcelain Cobalt & Gilt Tea Cup & Saucer
Located in Atlanta, GA
This exquisite 19th-century KPM Berlin porcelain tea cup and saucer set exemplifies the height of European porcelain craftsmanship. The set is adorned in a deep cobalt blue glaze, co...
Category
19th Century German Neoclassical Antique Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Haviland Limoges France Chocolate Tea Coffee Pot Floral Rose Teapot 10"
Located in Dayton, OH
Early 20th century large Haviland & Co Limoges porcelain chocolate / tea pot. Tall with scalloped base and upper edge, ribbon shaped handle, hand painted with springs of pink roses a...
Category
Early 20th Century Edwardian Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Antique 12 Pc Meissen B-Form Teacups & Saucers Floral Crossed Sword Tea Set B154
Located in Dayton, OH
Twelve piece set of antique Meissen China. Porcelain, blue swords marks 1st and 2nd choice, form number B-154, B-form purple with scattered flowe...
Category
Late 19th Century Baroque Antique Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Belleek Cabaret Tea Set, Cream Cob Lustre, Erne, Victorian, 1890s
Located in London, GB
This is an extremely rare Belleek cabaret set for two, or "tête-à-tête", made in the Erne series brought out in the 1890s. The items carry the 2nd Black Mark, used between 1891 and 1926. The set consists of a teapot, a milk jug, a sugar bowl, two teacups and saucers, and a large matching tray.
This set is very fine and with its restrained cream-white colour it would make a wonderful wedding gift!
If you ever thought Belleek fine china looks, sounds and feels unique, you are right. There is a back story to this extraordinarily fine Irish eggshell porcelain, which has an unusually high amount of "frit" and therefore is thinner and finer than any other china.
Pottery in Belleek (in the now Northern-Irish area of Fermanagh) had started in 1849 with John Caldwell Bloomfield, who was a wealthy land owner. During the Irish famine he realised that unless he would find a way for his tenants to make a profit off the land, they would starve. Agriculture had become impossible due to the agricultural diseases. This caused millions to starve and more millions to leave. As an amateur mineralogist, John Caldwell Bloomfield realised that his land had exactly the right mineral deposits to be used as clay for porcelain. He involved several investors and scientists and after many years of research, trial, error, the building of a railway line to import coal from England, and building a factory, the Belleek pottery resulted, employing the local people and soon producing the finest china made with clay from the Belleek area.
What had started as a way to fend off famine among the local tenants had became a story of incredible success by the 1880s as Queen Victoria fell in love with the fine white china and the many homely, slightly bizarre but nature-loving designs; this was different from English tradition, yet it was very much to the taste of the British who had developed a real love for home-made fine china since it was introduced in the late 18th Century. Belleek not only brought out many tea services, but started a new tradition of intricately woven porcelain baskets. Soon the English nobility started to place big orders and the pottery is still flourishing today and selling its wares the world over, while in England most potteries have long disappeared.
Belleek made many cabaret services, often called breakfast services or "tête-à-tête" services; these were used to carry breakfast tea up to the bedroom. Queen Victoria bought one in the Echinus style during a visit to the factory in the 1860s, and ever since Belleek's cabaret services have been in great demand. Nowadays there are very few of these left and it is rare to find a full service like this.
The Erne series was named after the river right besides the Belleek factory. This river forms the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, with the factory on the Northern Irish end of the bridge at Belleek. The pattern seems to be a play on the baskets and nets of the fishermen who once fished the abundant trout and salmon on the river Erne and the lake that belongs to it.
The items carry the second Black Mark, which was used between 1891 and 1926, however the very fine quality of the porcelain indicates that most pieces of the set are more likely to be from the 1890s than from the 20th Century. You will see that the shade of cob lustre is different on each item; this is normal for Belleek tea sets...
Category
Late 19th Century Northern Irish Victorian Antique Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Vally Wieselthier Art Deco Ceramic Tea Pot, USA, 1940s
Located in Vienna, AT
A beautiful Art Deco tea pot with lid, dated circa 1940, made of pottery / stoneware with lovely brown glaze, designed by Vally Wieselthier. In very good ...
Category
1940s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
