Japanese Tea Sets

Tobacco leaf pattern plate, cup and saucer. Copeland and Garrett tobacco leaf/cabbage leaf individual plate, coffee cup and saucer in blue, red, ...

18th century Japanese Imari Gold porcelain small lobbed cups and saucers Early 18th century imari gold lobbed Japanese cups and saucers Small cups and saucers...

This is a rare "Anchorage Teapot" by designer and artist Peter Shire. Rossi e Arcandi for Memphis, Milano, 1982. The teapot is completely original and shows signs of wear to be expec...

From its very first year in 1964, Seletti in Cicognara, Mantova, has followed its principle of professionality service and constant research to strive for betterness innovation and o...

This is an absolutely fabulous antique Copeland Spode Indian tree cup and saucer. It is a spectacular example of Spode porcelain with rust and orange...

Antique Chinese cup & saucer, circa 1840.

Crafted entirely by hand of mouth-blown transparent glass, this elegant teapot boasts a striking texture of parallel lines that run vertically on its curvaceous body, accentuating it...

This is a beautiful coffee cup and saucer made by Samuel Alcock around 1830, which was the Rococo Revival era. The set is decorated with a bold Imari pattern and has a "ring-moulded" shape. Samuel Alcock was one of the many potters in Staffordshire such as Spode, Coalport, H&R Daniel and many others during the 1830s and 1840s. He was perhaps not the most well-known of potters but produced very high quality wares and original designs, often standing out for their bright choice of colours and beautiful shapes. The Alcock factory is not well documented so although they had a huge output, items are often mis-identified and we don't know much about the production process of artists, even though the wares have a very high quality that equals that of the more well known factories. The Rococo style was originally a style of the 18th Century. After the Baroque style, which was highly symmetrical and well-designed as it aimed to express the perfection of God, the Rococo style was a reaction that expressed the unpredictability and flow of nature. "Rococo" is derived from the French word "rocaille", which stands for a mass of pebbles that are self-organised in a completely unpredictable mess, for instance on the beach or in the mountains. Rococo moved away from the stranglehold that religion had on the arts: it was capricious, asymmetrical, charming and worldly. As Europe got mired in various wars between Germany, France and Britain, the general style got much more austere again and people embraced neo-classicism. But in the 1830s and 1840s, the seemingly unlimited fortunes of the Industrial Revolution sparked a revival of Rococo, once again creating natural shapes that are not always symmetrical and don't particularly make rational sense. This coffee cup can...

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...

A set of six antique Flight Worcester porcelain cups and saucers. Each with a ribbed swirl design and cobalt blue and gold floral sprig and garland decoration. Each base is mar...

Excellent condition~no chips, cracks or crazing; “Shalimar” pattern by Haviland Limoges; “Shalimar”, in production between 1971 to 1992 is in the Louis XV shape with gold trim and ac...

ROYAL CROWN DERBY - Imari Pattern Number 2451 - Antique bone china tea cup with fluted sides (circa 1912) and an antique saucer (circa 1916) - elaborat...