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Material: Ceramic
1980s Memphis Milano White and Red Ceramic Italian Tea Set by MAS
By MAS Italia
Located in Aci Castello, IT
An amazing Memphis Milano tea set manufactured in Italy by Mas Italia. the red and white ceramic it's in perfect condition, the set has not been probably never used. The tea set by M...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Mid century glazed ceramic tea set signed Stocker
By Stocker
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Purchasing this Mid-Century glazed ceramic tea set signed by Stocker is akin to acquiring a piece of functional art that seamlessly combines beauty with practicality. Crafted during ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Rolf Sinnemark / "CUBE" TEA POT 401 / Rorstrand / 1985
Located in Shibuya-Ku, JP
ROLF SINNEMARK is a Swedish designer and glass artist.
He studied industrial design at KONSTFACK in Stockholm. After working in the USA, he was with BODA (merged with KOSTA BODA) fro...
Category
1980s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Catene Zaffiro 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 Catene Collection, designed in 1926 by iconic designe...
Category
2010s Italian 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Lotta Odelius for Sagaform Sweden Retro Teapot
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
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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
Totem Tiger Mug with Lid by GINORI 1735
Located in Milan, IT
Mug with cover and spherical knob (cc 400). Part of the Totem Collection, the eclectic and sophisticated decoration of this mug is inspired by nature in the style of 18th-century lux...
Category
2010s Italian Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Jean Luce Cream Earthenware Coffee and Tea Set Rectangle Created in France 1932
By Jean Luce
Located in Crespières, FR
Jean Luce’s Coffee and Tea set Rectangle Model Created in France 1932 Cream Glazed Earthenware
This iconic avant garde Art Deco tableware was created by the famous French designer a...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Earthenware
Royal Copenhagen Coffee/Tea Set with Hand Painted Saxony Flowers 1930s
Located in Benalmadena, ES
This exquisite Royal Copenhagen tea/coffee set, Saxon Flower collection, is an exceptional example of the finest European craftsmanship. Each piece is hand-decorated with delicate po...
Category
1930s Danish Art Nouveau Vintage Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Minton Teacup Trio, Bath Embossed, Green Flowers Patt. 38/680, ca 1830
By Minton
Located in London, GB
This is an elegant "true trio" consisting of a teacup, coffee cup and saucer, made by Minton in about 1830. The set is decorated with the beautifully hand painted pattern no. 680 con...
Category
1830s English Rococo Revival Antique 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
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
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
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 Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
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
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
By Victoria Czechoslovakia
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
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
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
21 Piece Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Blue Flowers Coffee Tea Set Service for 8
Located in Dayton, OH
Royal Copenhagen Denmark tea set. Features service for 8 with sugar, creamer and coffee / tea pot. Made from porcelain with blue flowers pattern.
Category
Late 20th Century Dutch Colonial Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
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 Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Neoclassical Jasperware Espresso Coffee Cup Saucer Copeland Spode
By Copeland
Located in New York, NY
An English jasperware espresso coffee or tea demitasse cup and saucer, in the Neoclassical style, by Copeland Spode, circa 19th century, England. A beautiful cup and saucer with Neoc...
Category
Late 19th Century English Neoclassical 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
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
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
Japanese Lithophane Geisha Moriage Porcelain Dragonware Tea Set - 12 Pieces
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Exquisite 12-piece Japanese Lithophane Geisha Moriage Tea Set with intricate dragon motifs and lithophane geisha images, perfect for collectors.
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Dresden Tea Set with Hand-Painted Flowers and Raised Figural Faces of Ladies
Located in Boston, MA
I want to offer you this fabulous Helena Wolfson Dresden tea set decorated with hand-painted flower bouquets and raised figural faces of ladies. It inc...
Category
1890s German Rococo Antique Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain, Cedar
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
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
Set of 6 Astronomici Tea Cups
By Fornasetti
Located in Milan, IT
This set of hand-decorated porcelain tea cups with gold accents is adorned with exquisite zodiac designs, making this ensemble a true collector's item. Any minor discrepancies betwee...
Category
2010s Italian Ceramic 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 Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Gold
Limoges Elite France Hand Painted Pink Floral Tea Cup Saucer Fine China 1930
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Antique Elite Limoges France Tea Cup set Gold Signed Art Nouveau style.
Rare antique porcelain Limoges Elite French pink and gold cup and saucer f...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Jules Guérin 'Sang de Boeuf' and Gold Belgian Studio Pottery Coffee Set, 1960s
Located in Tilburg, NL
Jules Guérin 'Sang de Boeuf' and Gold Belgian Studio pottery coffee set. Bouffioulx, Belgium, 1960s.
This is a wonderful and rare coffee set by the fa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Belgian Art Deco Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Cabinet De Curiosités, Six Contemporary Decorated Tea Cups with Plates
By Vito Nesta
Located in Milano, Lombardia
The cabinet de Curiosités collection takes inspiration from the rooms of the same name which in the sixteenth century collected objects and subjects of various kinds. In this collect...
Category
2010s Italian Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Flight & Barr Solitaire Cabaret Tea Set, Pink and Gilt, Neoclassical ca 1800
Located in London, GB
This is a very rare and stunning cabaret "solitaire" tea set, serving one. The set was made by the Flight & Barr factory in Worcester between 1792 and 1804, and it consists of a larg...
Category
Early 1800s English Regency Antique 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
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
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
Samuel Alcock Tearcup Trio, Maroon, Yellow, Gilt and Fine Landscapes, ca 1845
Located in London, GB
A true trio consisting of a teacup, a coffee cup and a saucer, “rustic bean” shape, in deep maroon and pale yellow ground, with gilt and finely painted landscape reserves
Pattern 95...
Category
1840s English Rococo Revival Antique Ceramic Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
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 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
Antique Doccia Porcelain Italian Neoclassical Topographical Teapot
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique topographical porcelain teapot.
By Doccia Porcelain Manufactory circa 1820.
With painted enamel topographical scenes: each...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique 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
