Pearlware Tea Sets

This pair of English silver Lustre cups and saucers have neoclassic decoration. On the border, panels of silver lustre frame a single acanthus leaf painted half in lustre and half ...

A fine antique English tea caddy. In creamware or pearlware with blue underglaze chinoiserie decoration throughout. Together with a lat...

This is a lovely pair of hand-painted 18th century pearled creamware tea bowls and saucers. Made in England circa 1785, the cups and saucers are pai...

This is a beautiful teacup and saucer made by Miles Mason circa 1810, which was the Regency era. The items are decorated with a cheerful red and blue pattern and, very unusually, silver gilding throughout the pattern and on the rim. Miles Mason was one of the early ones of the second wave of British porcelain makers, alongside Spode and others. Mason was a prominent porcelain retailer in London at the time that most porcelain came from China, imported by the East India Company. When those imports stopped in 1791 (due to the racketeering at the porcelain auctions by Mason and his fellow dealers), he seized the opportunity and started to experiment in making his own porcelain. By the early 1800s, Mason had developed both very strong ironstone, and bone china. Mason copied the Chinese designs he used to import, and became famous for large Chinoiserie dinner and dessert wares made of "Patent Ironstone". However, they also made very fine porcelain and pearlware tea services. This set would have been part of such a large tea service. It is made of fine pearlware and is therefore lighter than porcelain, and it is decorated with a Folk Art-like pattern of blue, red and silver. It is very rare to find items that are gilded with silver rather than gold. The set is unmarked as was common at the time. Condition report: The set is in excellent antique condition without any damage, repairs or crazing, and only some light wear on the silver, as visible in the pictures. Antique British pottery...

A wonderful Georgian pearlware pottery teapot with exuberant and dramatic hand-painted 'Ermine' decoration. The teapot features a flower-form finial and interior hand-pierced strainer.