Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Gold
19th Century British Victorian Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1770s English Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1790s English Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Pearlware
Early 19th Century Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
Late 18th Century British Victorian Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1890s Victorian Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1880s English Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
19th Century English Chinoiserie Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1820s English Regency Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century Other Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1920s English Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1890s English Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1780s English George III Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1880s English Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1780s English George III Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1790s English George III Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1820s Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
Late 18th Century George III Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Copper
1760s English Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Northern Irish Victorian Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1880s English Japonisme Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Northern Irish Victorian Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Northern Irish Victorian Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1860s Victorian Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
Late 19th Century English Japonisme Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
Late 19th Century English Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Gold
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Ceramic
19th Century English Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Gold
1780s English George III Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1920s English Art Deco Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
19th Century Indian Anglo Raj Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Silver, Copper
1880s English Victorian Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1830s English Regency Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
19th Century Victorian Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 1700s English Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1770s English Georgian Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Pottery
Late 19th Century Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1810s English Regency Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
18th Century George III Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1820s English Rococo Revival Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1820s English Rococo Revival Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1790s English Georgian Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1830s English Rococo Revival Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Northern Irish Arts and Crafts Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1810s English Regency Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1820s English Regency Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1810s English Regency Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
1820s English Rococo Revival Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 19th Century English William IV Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
19th Century German Regency Revival Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Ormolu, Bronze
19th Century English Rococo Revival Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Ceramic, Porcelain
Mid-19th Century English Rococo Revival Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Ceramic, Porcelain, Paint
1820s English Regency Antique English Porcelain Tea Sets
Porcelain
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Finding the Right tea-sets for You
Ready to serve high tea and brunch for your family and friends? Start with the right antique, new or vintage tea set.
Tea is a multicultural, multinational beverage and isn’t confined to any particular lifestyle or age group. It has humble beginnings, and one of its best-known origin stories places the first cups of tea in 2700 B.C. in China, where it was recognized for its medicinal properties. Jump ahead to 17th-century England, when Chinese tea began to arrive at ports in London. During the early 1800s, tea became widely affordable, and the concept of teatime took shape all over England. Today, more than 150 million people reportedly drink tea daily in the United States.
Early tea drinkers enjoyed their beverage in a bowl, and English potters eventually added a handle to the porcelain bowls so that burning your fingers became less of a teatime hazard. With the rise in the popularity of teatime, tea sets, also referred to as tea service, became a hot commodity.
During Queen Victoria’s reign, teakettles and coffeepots were added to tea services that were quite large — indeed, small baked goods were served with your drink back then, and a tea set could include many teacups and saucers, a milk pot and other accessories.
During the early 1920s, a sterling-silver full tea service and tray designed by Tiffany & Co. might include a hot-water kettle on a stand, a coffeepot, teapot, a creamer with a small lip spout, a waste bowl and a bowl for sugar, which the British were stirring into tea as early as the 18th century.
But you don’t have to limit your tea set to Victorian or Art Deco styles — shake up teatime with an artful contemporary service. If the bold porcelain cups and saucers by Italian brand Seletti are too unconventional for your otherwise subdued tea circle, find antique services on 1stDibs from Japan, France and other locales as well as vintage mid-century modern tea sets and neoclassical designs.
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