$1,995 / set
Wedgwood Basalt Tea Set
Located in East Hampton, NY
Wedgwood basalt tea set consisting of nine pieces. Individual measurements: Two pitchers 7.25" H x 7" W x 4.25" D Three saucers 4.25" Diameter Three tea cups 2.1/8" H x 2.25" W...
Rock Crystal
Adams Black Basalt Neoclassical Widow Teapot, Circa 1790
By William Adams (Potter)
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A scarce black Basalt engine-turned teapot, attributed to William Adams I (1746-1805) Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England, circa 1790. William Adams I was an accomplished potter whose ...
Stoneware
Basalt Wedgwood Tea Set
Located in East Hampton, NY
Basalt Wedgwood tea set consists of: Measures: Tea pot - 6.75" H x 7" W x 4.25" D Creamer - 2.75" H x 4.7/8" W x 3.75" D Sugar bowl - 3.5" H x 4.3/8" W x 4.25" D Six tea cups -...
Antique English Wedgwood Black Basalt 3-Piece Teapot Set, 19th Century
By Wedgwood
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique English black basalt stoneware 3-piece teapot set by Wedgwood offers matte exteriors with glazed interiors and includes footed teapot, lidded sugar and creamer, two items ...
Ceramic, Porcelain, Stoneware
A Collection of Black Basalt Tea and Coffee Pots
Located in Katonah, NY
A group of early 19th century engine turned Black Basalt wares comprising a cylindrical teapot and cover modeled with classical figures, and three coffee pots with machine turned arc...
Rare Set of a Dozen Wedgwood Black Basalt Tea Cups and Saucers
By Wedgwood
Located in Katonah, NY
A dozen Wedgwood Black Basalt tea cups and saucers each cup with applied decoration showing a unique neoclassical scene with men and women in classical dress. The surfaces are lustro...
Stoneware
Wedgwood Black Basalt Teapot
By Josiah Wedgwood
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a very good example of a Wedgwood (signed) late 18th century Black Basalt Teapot. The Teapot is in overall very good condition and features a band of putti ringing the body o...
Stoneware
Matte Black Espresso Cup and Saucer, England
By Wedgwood
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful matte basalt black espresso or demitasse cup and saucer, by Wedgwood, England. With maker's mark on bottom as show in images. Interior of cup is glazed smooth. Made in En...
Ceramic, Pottery
Antique Black Basalt Teapots and Coffee Pots
Located in Katonah, NY
A group of four early 19th century engine turned Black Basalt wares comprising: Two machine turned tea pots and two machine turned coffee pots. In the last quarter of the 18th centur...
Stoneware
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H 2.13 in Dm 4.13 in
Wedgwood Matte Black Basalt Espresso Coffee Cup & Saucer, 1957 England, Set of 8
By Wedgwood
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful and chic set of eight (8) English Wedgwood matte black basalt stoneware espresso coffee or tea demitasse cups and saucers, circa mid to late-20th century, England.
Pottery, Stoneware
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H 4.5 in W 4.5 in D 4.5 in
Wedgwood Egyptian Revival Black Basalt & Rosso Antico Incense Burner circa 1820
By Wedgwood
Located in Katonah, NY
The neo-Egyptian revival inspired everything from sofas with sphinx-shaped legs to tea sets painted with pyramids. Josiah Wedgwood introduced black basalt in 1768.
Stoneware
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H 5.5 in W 7.5 in D 3.75 in
Basalt Wedgwood Teapot with Medallions of Man with Lyre and Lady on Pedestal
By Wedgwood
Located in Boston, MA
This is a very rare antique Wedgwood Etruria Basalt teapot. It is eight sided and decorated on all sides. One side has a medallion of a man playing a lyre, while the other side has a...
Ceramic, Stoneware
Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Tableware Dinner Service, Denmark 1961
By Royal Copenhagen
Located in Delft, NL
Royal Copenhagen porcelain tableware dinner service, Denmark 1961 A Royal Copenhagen porcelain dinner service with pattern number 595, the floral golden basket Flowers in the ce...
Porcelain
$1,920Sale Price / set|50% Off
Vintage Limoges Porcelain Dinnerware Set - 80 Pieces
By Limoges
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
This exquisite vintage dinnerware set, likely crafted in fine Limoges porcelain, features delicate floral patterns and gold accents. Each piece is signed “France,” a hallmark of its ...
Porcelain
$275Sale Price|42% Off
H 3.38 in W 2.88 in D 2.75 in
Wedgwood Jasperware Urn Vase Neoclassical Design, Small
By Wedgwood
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful, small, English Wedgwood Jasperware urn vase in the neoclassical design style, circa 20th century, England. Piece is a matte stoneware in a light lavender purple with a w...
Stoneware
Spode Blue Italian 81 Piece Dinner Set
By Spode
Located in Montreal, Quebec
81 pieces crafted using fine earthenware porcelain make up this classic collection by Spode. The Blue Italian design depicts a scene in the Italian countryside with natural elements ...
Earthenware, Porcelain
Fabergé Silver Service
By Fabergé
Located in New Orleans, LA
This extraordinary 128-piece service by Fabergé is a rare treasure in more ways than one. Enclosed in its original oak chest, the exquisite service remains complete and in pristine c...
Silver
$187,500
H 102 in W 84.5 in D 22.5 in
Exceptional 19th Century English Chinoiserie Pagoda Display Cabinet
Located in Houston, TX
Large-scale 19th century English display cabinet executed in the Chinoiserie tradition. Constructed in carved mahogany and conceived as a tripartite architectural façade, each glazed...
Glass, Mahogany
20th Century Italian Rococo Bird Cage, Hand-Painted Metal & Wood
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Venetian style (20th Cent) octagonal shaped painted and decorated metal and wood bird cage with 8 upholstered seat and back cushions around base. (Franco Zefferelli Collection)
Metal
$24,000 / set
H 79 in W 27 in D 3 in
Pair of Magnificent Antique French Carved Wood Panels Depicting the Four Seasons
Located in Bridgeport, CT
An Extraordinary Pair of early 20th century carved wood Panels depicting the Four Seasons. Tall narrow unpainted panels with high relief carved decoration with motifs of the Four Sea...
Wood
Antique Meissen 68-Piece Floral Dinner Service
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in London, GB
Antique Meissen 68-piece floral dinner service German, c. 1900 Largest serving dish: Height 6cm, width 52.5cm, depth 37.5cm Square salad bowl: Height 9.5cm, width 22cm, depth 22cm...
Porcelain
Wedgwood Black Basalt Plates, Set of 6
By Wedgwood
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful set of six (6) English black basalt plates by Wedgwood, circa early to mid-20th century, England. Plates could be used a myriad of ways (appetizer plates, dessert, etc., ...
Pottery, Stoneware
"Old Paris” Porcelain Dinner Service, 19th Century, France
By Old Paris
Located in Delft, NL
“Old Paris” porcelain dinner service 188 pieces tableware (200 parts) 19th century French porcelain. Beautiful white porcelain with blue and gold painted border and in the c...
Porcelain
$9,111Sale Price|20% Off
H 1.58 in W 14.97 in D 18.9 in
Unusual Set of 18th Century Blue and White Plates, Platers and Lidded Plates
Located in Epfach, DE
Decorative Set of Blue and White Porcelain Plates, China, 18th Century This striking and unusual set of 19 blue and white porcelain pieces includes plates, platters, and lidded pla...
Porcelain
$95,950 / set
H 12 in W 18 in D 18 in
Chrysanthemum Tiffany Sterling Silver Flatware Set Service 255 pcs Fitted Chest
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in Big Bend, WI
Chrysanthemum (c1880) originally called Indian Chrysanthemum .Tiffany's luxurious Chrysanthemum silver was designed in 1880 by Charles Grosjean. With its flowing curves, swirling ve...
Sterling Silver
Large and Assembled Wedgwood 'Wreathed Shell' Part Dessert Service, circa 1815
By Wedgwood
Located in New York, NY
"Conchological, each shaped based on that of a real shell and enriched in shades of pink, yellow and iron red. Literature: Robin Reilly, Wedgwood Vol. II, Page 25 Fig 13 and 14. 1 Ar...
Pearlware
$120,000
H 1 in Dm 9 in
Large English Porcelain Imari Pattern Dessert and Tea Service, Spode, circa 1815
Located in New York, NY
Iron-red uppercase Spode mark and pattern 2213. Richly painted in the Imari palette and enriched in pale-blue, green and gold with flowering shrubs and a tree, the border with altern...
Porcelain
Wedgwood Black Basalt Pastille Burner
By Wedgewood
Located in New Orleans, LA
Wedgwood began crafting pastille burners in the early nineteenth century, and this stunning dolphin burner is a gorgeous example of his innovative design. The finely-pierced lid with...
Ceramic
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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