A late Victorian part spiral-fluted and gadrooned moulded rounded oblong three-piece batchelor tea service, the teapot with rising curved spout, ebonised wood scroll handle and part-fluted domed hinged cover with fluted boat-shaped wood finial, the sugar basin and milk jug with reeded scroll handles, Samuel Watton Smith, London 1898 - height of teapot 4¾in., 23.50oz. gross. (3)