Tea Sets
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tea Sets
Gold Plate, Brass
1970s Unknown Aesthetic Movement Vintage Tea Sets
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century European Tea Sets
Porcelain
1980s German Hollywood Regency Vintage Tea Sets
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Baroque Tea Sets
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Tea Sets
Aluminum
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Stainless Steel
Late 20th Century Chinese Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Porcelain
20th Century Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Porcelain
1850s English Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Porcelain
19th Century French Antique Tea Sets
Majolica
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Metal
20th Century Danish Art Nouveau Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
1870s English Aesthetic Movement Antique Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Tea Sets
Silver Plate
20th Century Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
20th Century Italian Post-Modern Tea Sets
Bakelite
1980s Mexican Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Onyx, Silver Plate, Copper
1880s English Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
Late 20th Century Italian Minimalist Tea Sets
Silver Plate
20th Century American Other Tea Sets
Silver
1870s Antique Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
Late 19th Century Japanese Late Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain
1980s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 20th Century English Victorian Tea Sets
Silver Plate, Pewter
1930s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
Early 20th Century Chinese Tea Sets
Bronze
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
20th Century Swedish Modern Tea Sets
Ceramic
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Porcelain
Early 19th Century French Antique Tea Sets
Porcelain, Paint
1930s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Copper
1960s Vintage Tea Sets
Metal
1720s Vietnamese Qing Antique Tea Sets
Ceramic, Porcelain
20th Century English Tea Sets
Rock Crystal
1770s Antique Tea Sets
Silver
1810s English Regency Antique Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
1770s Antique Tea Sets
Silver
Mid-20th Century British Tea Sets
Ceramic, Porcelain
1980s Swedish Post-Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Porcelain
1880s English Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
1990s Italian Tea Sets
Silver, Sterling Silver
1920s British Art Deco Vintage Tea Sets
Silver, Silver Plate, Sterling Silver, Silver Leaf
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Silver Plate
20th Century Asian Chinese Export Tea Sets
Porcelain, Wicker
Mid-20th Century Hungarian Tea Sets
Gold
Early 1900s Belgian Neoclassical Antique Tea Sets
Silver
1750s English Georgian Antique Tea Sets
Stoneware
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Porcelain
20th Century Japanese Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
1890s Antique Tea Sets
Gold Plate, Silver, Enamel
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Tea Sets
Silver Plate, Brass
1840s English Greek Revival Antique Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
Mid-20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Pewter
1850s Irish Victorian Antique Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
20th Century North American Tea Sets
Porcelain
1790s English Neoclassical Antique Tea Sets
Sterling Silver
1910s English Vintage Tea Sets
Silver Plate
Antique, New and Vintage Tea Sets
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.





