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Chinese Export Porcelain Tea Service

ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS
Dateca. 1800
Mediumporcelain
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gail-Oxford Collection
Label TextServing and drinking tea at home became enormously popular in America after the mid-18th century. Like the tea itself, many of the implements, dishes, and pots used were imported from China or influenced by forms brought to America through trade with Asia.
Status
Not on view
Object number2017.5.5
Tea Jar
Unknown, Chinese
ca. 1800
Object number: 2017.5.5.3
Tea Cup
Unknown, Chinese
ca. 1800
Object number: 2017.5.5.5
Tea Cup
Unknown, Chinese
ca. 1800
Object number: 2017.5.5.6
Tea Cup
Unknown, Chinese
ca. 1800
Object number: 2017.5.5.7
Chinese Carpet Fragment
Unknown, Chinese, 19th Century
19th Century
Object number: 2007.3.15
Martelé Tea Service, Waste Bowl
Gorham Manufacturing Company
ca. 1900
Object number: 2001.44.2.3
Martelé Tea Service, Cup
Gorham Manufacturing Company
ca. 1900
Object number: 2001.44.2.4
Martelé Tea Service, Kettle and Stand
Gorham Manufacturing Company
ca. 1900
Object number: 2001.44.2.2
Martelé Tea Service, Creamer
Gorham Manufacturing Company
ca. 1900
Object number: 2001.44.2.5
Martelé Tea Service, Sugar Bowl
Gorham Manufacturing Company
ca. 1900
Object number: 2001.44.2.6
Tea service depicting Lafayette at Benjamin Franklin's Tomb
Enoch Wood & Sons
ca. 1824
Object number: 2017.5.47
Martelé Tea Service, Tray
Gorham Manufacturing Company
ca. 1900
Object number: 2001.44.2.1