Early Victorian Tea Sets

19th Century Victorian antique silver plated tea set, the tea pot having black wood topped lid and handle, very decorative design. Good antique condition.

"Antique mid to early 19th century American pewter teapot with acorn finial by Sellew & Co of Cincinnati, Ohio. ""Sellew & Co. was the oldest company that produced pewter and Bri...

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...

A beautiful Antique Solid Silver four Piece Tea and Coffee Set by the esteemed silversmith Paul Storr. This rare complete four piece set has a subtle lobed shape and each piece has a...

This is a beautifully matched pair of patriotic American eagle teacups and saucers from the 1840s. They are made of bone china with a thick cobalt blue top border design with gold stars, gold outer pinstripes, and a gold top rim edge. They feature a central patriotic American eagle with a red and white shield, clutching an olive branch and a bundle of arrows in its talons. Fourteen tiny gold stars are positioned above the eagle's head. The eagle is both the national bird and the national animal of the United States. The founders of the United States were fond of comparing their new republic with the Roman Republic, in which eagle imagery, usually the golden eagle, was prominent. On June 20, 1782, the Continental Congress adopted the design for the Great Seal of the United States depicting a bald eagle grasping 13 arrows in its sinister (left) talon and an olive branch with its dexter (right) talons. Those arrows are tightly aligned, a symbol of "strength in unity" that's found in the traditional cultures everywhere, from the Romans to the Iroquois. In this case, the bundle of arrows were a nod to the unity of the original 13 colonies. The olive branches emphasize the power of peace. The eagle motif has since appeared in allegorical engravings...

This is a very charming coffee cup and saucer made by Minton around the year 1835. The set is potted in the D-Regent shape and decorated with a Kakiemon-style tiger pattern. Minton ...

Provenance: The Private Collection of Mario Buatta Tea for two with a lovely pattern. This pair of "Strawberry" pattern pink lustre cups and saucers was ...

This is a very charming coffee cup and saucer made by Ridgway in about 1840, which was the early Victorian era. The set has a green floral design on bright white with the number 2/40...

Tasteful complete set of three silver jugs, realized in London in 1845. Made of 925/1000 silver. This refined set consists of a teapot, a sugar bowl and a milk jug. It is octag...

We are pleased to offer this very special lustreware cup and saucer made in England, circa 1830. The cup and saucer both show a hand painted songbird perched in a tree with green leaves and grass on a purple ground. The colors purple and green are the colors which are most rare in lustreware! In addition to purple and green the painter used orange, gray, and yellow on the bird and the tree. The border is copper lustre. Background of Lustreware: Lustreware or Lusterware is pottery with a second glaze produced by metallic oxides painted over the glaze finish, which is then given a second firing at a lower temperature in a muffle kiln which excludes oxygen. Lustre technology probably began sometime between the 4th and 8th centuries AD. Lustre decoration was first used as a glass-painting technique. From there its use in pottery probably began in Málaga Spain which was the first center of lustred Hispano-Moresque ware. Eventually its use spread to the region of Valencia, and then to Italy, where it was used to enhance Renaissance Maiolica...

The 19th century Victorian English tea set with gracious proportions, composed of tea pot, sugar and creamer dates from the 1840s due to its pale blue coloring and decoration. The pi...

The cups are decorated inside and outside with bouquets of spring flowers painted in grisaille. Each cup and saucer with a beautifully gilded border.