A Victorian tapering moulded circular three-piece tea service chased with flowers, foliage and scale-work and with scroll cartouches, each on shell and foliate feet and with a moulded rim and scroll handles, the teapot with a fluted rising curved spout and domed hinged cover with finial formed as a bird with outstretched wings, W. R. Sobey, London, 1851 - height of teapot 7¼in, 45.75oz.