$1,287Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Geisha Tea Set, Japanese, Handpainted, Ceramic, Teapot, Cups, Service
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique Geisha tea set. A Japanese, handpainted ceramic teapot and cups service for four, dating to the early 20th century, circa 1920.
Ceramic
Maruko Japanese Lithophane Geisha Tea Set for 6
Located in SANT ADRIÀ DE BESÒS, ES
Elegant vintage Maruko Japanese porcelain tea set for six, dating to c.1950-1970 (Showa period).
Porcelain
Kutani Lithophane Geisha Tea Set for 6 - Hand Painted Birds & Flowers
By Kutani Studio
Located in SANT ADRIÀ DE BESÒS, ES
Beautiful early-Showa Kutani porcelain tea set for six, dating to c.1940–1960. Each cup features a delicate lithophane geisha portrait visible when held to the light – a highly colle...
Porcelain
Japanese Satsuma Tea Set for 12 – Hand Painted Geisha
By Satsuma
Located in SANT ADRIÀ DE BESÒS, ES
Beautiful and rare Japanese Satsuma porcelain tea set for twelve, dating to the early 20th century (c.1920–1940).
Porcelain
Japanese Porcelain Tea Set for 5, Hand-Painted Geisha Scenes, Early 20th Century
By Satsuma
Located in SANT ADRIÀ DE BESÒS, ES
A finely crafted Japanese porcelain tea set for five, decorated with delicate hand-painted scenes in traditional style.
Porcelain
Vintage Geisha Painted 21-Piece Japanese Footed Tea Set and Lacquer Serving Tray
Located in Lomita, CA
This is a an assembled 21-piece Japanese tea and condiment set that is a colorful example of mid-20th century export porcelain.
Ceramic
21 Pc Japanese Satsuma Moriage Dragonware Lithopane Geisha Coffee Tea Set
Located in Dayton, OH
Circa early to mid-20th century Japanese porcelain tea set - a mixed lot of various makes in the same style.
Porcelain
Vintage Japanese Lithophane Geisha porcelain coffee set Blue Dragon, 1950s
Located in Miklavž Pri Taboru, SI
A magnificent Blue Dragon coffee set: 10 beautiful antique cups and saucers, a coffee pot, a sugar bowl with a lid, and a cream jug. These beautiful lithophane cups were first create...
Porcelain
Victorian Ceramic Teapot 1894 the Geisha
Located in Aci Castello, IT
Rare English ceramic teapot on stand, registered in 1894. Named the geisha, nice colors, good conditions overall.
Archival Paper
Kutani Japan Lithophane Geisha Silhouette Egg Shell Porcelain Tea Set for 6
By Kutani Studio
Located in Torquay, GB
Complete tea set consisting of 1 lidded tea pot, 1 lidded Sugar bowl, 1 creamer/milk jug, 6 lithophane Geisha tea cups, 6 saucers and 6 side plates.
Porcelain
Sold
H 3 in W 3.5 in D 2.5 in
Japanese Geisha and Cherry Blossom Kutani Ware Porcelain Tea Cup and Saucer Set
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A beautiful Japanese Kutani tea serving set of 13. This set includes six cups, six saucers, and one sugar bowl with a lid.
Ceramic, Porcelain, Paint
Sold
H 2 in W 3 in D 2.25 in
Antique Japonisme Moriage Dragon Ware Cup and Saucer Set with Lithophane Geisha
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A beautiful artisanal handcrafted porcelain Dragon ware teacup and saucer set. This set features a moriage dragon design. Created from slip and applied around the body of the cup, th...
Gold
$74,975 / set
H 1 in Dm 10.8 in
Set of 12 Exquisite "Gilded Age" Sterling Silver Tiffany Charger Plates
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in New York, NY
This exquisite set of 12 "Gilded Age" Sterling Silver Tiffany Charges was realized in America in 1905. Each plate has heavily detailed boarders featuring a Kylix cup amid scrolling s...
Sterling 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
Set of 12 Minton Gold Rimmed Porcelain Ball Dinner Plates
By Minton
Located in Great Barrington, MA
One of Minton's most popular patterns is named "Porcelain Ball” which features a large diameter plate bordered by a gold and white floral decoration and trimmed with an acid etc...
Porcelain
Fabergé Silver Flatware Service
By Fabergé
Located in New Orleans, LA
This exceptional 77-piece complete service by Fabergé is a rare treasure from the world-renowned firm. Enclosed in its original oak chest, the exquisite service remains complete and ...
Silver
18th Century, Chinese Export Coral and Puce Porcelain Tea Service
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese export porcelain service spectacularly decorated with a smart coral scale ground with panels of puce flowers. The service comprises 11 saucers, teapot and cover, bowl, co...
Porcelain
Extensive Augarten Porcelain Dinner, Coffee and Tea Service, circa 1935
Located in New York, NY
Special commission from the factory for the Brucknerstift St. Florian, a seminary located on the outskirts of Vienna. Blue crowned Bindenshield and Wien Mark, iron-red printed hash m...
Porcelain
$60,662Sale Price|20% Off
H 104.34 in W 153.55 in D 19.69 in
Antique Pharmacy Cabinet, Walnut Bookcases and Glass Doors with Sign, '800 Italy
Located in Cuneo, Italy (CN)
Complete antique pharmacy cabinet, with 3 open bookcases on the sides, 1 bookcase with drawers and 2 original doors with glass and enameled mirror sign. Built in the mid-19th century...
Glass, Walnut
Victorian Nécessaire de Voyage
Located in New Orleans, LA
A work of extraordinary craftsmanship, this exquisite English vanity case is as much an item of luxury as it is of necessity. Known as a nécessaire de voyage, the case features a lux...
Velvet, Glass, Wood
Guerin &Co Limoges France Dessert Service for 10, Bone China
By Limoges
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Set of 10 dessert plates, 10 sauce/fruit bowls, 2 cake plates, compote, and syrup pitcher by Guerin &Co was made of fine, semi-transparent bone china in Limoges, France. The set ...
Porcelain, Ceramic
$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
$7,980Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 4 in W 12 in D 12 in
133 Piece House of Puiforcat Kiang She Dinner Service for 12 by Limoges, France
By Puiforcat
Located in Morristown, NJ
20th c., France, a magnificent Chinese-inspired service from the 18th century "Kiang She" (on white background) from Puiforcat. 133 pieces of gilt and polychrome enameled porcelain, ...
Porcelain, Paint
$239,016 / set
H 40.56 in W 21.26 in D 21.07 in
Six Imporatant George III 1760 Thomas Chippendale Chinese Pagoda Dining Chairs
By Thomas Chippendale
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer this important suite of museum quality, George III circa 1760-1765, Thomas Chippendale Chinese Pagoda top dining chairs with the original embroidered seat p...
Hardwood
$563Sale Price|20% Off
H 4.53 in W 6.3 in D 8.27 in
Antique Butter Dish, English, Ceramic Cheese Keeper, Country Kitchen, Circa 1920
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique butter dish. An English, ceramic country kitchen cheese keeper, dating to the early 20th century, circa 1920. Pleasingly decorative dish, with charming foliate p...
Ceramic
$700 / set
H 6.25 in W 3.25 in D 6.5 in
Vintage Japanese Thousand Flower Satsuma Porcelain Demitasse Tea Coffee Set
Located in Dayton, OH
Vintage Japanese Satsuma porcelain demitasse tea or coffee set featuring the thousand flower design with gold accents. Includes tea pot with lid, creamer, six cups and six saucers. ...
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Hand-Painted Chinese 13-Piece Tea Set
Located in Roma, IT
Chinese set is a 13-piece tea service, 1950s. Hand-painted porcelain with oriental decorations. Dimensions: Cup D 7.5 x H 4 cm. Teapot: D 10 x H 15 cm. Saucer D 10 cm. Very good ...
Porcelain
$2,333Sale Price|20% Off
H 6.3 in Dm 9.85 in
Japanese tea service for 10 in fine mid-19th century porcelain
Located in Catania, IT
Japanese tea service for 10 in fine porcelain from the mid-19th century Hand painted of excellent workmanship as visible in the photo in good condition. The service consists of: 10 c...
Porcelain
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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