A Victorian three-piece compressed moulded circular afternoon tea service on grotesque mask and trefoil feet and with shaped everted rims, each decorated with rococo flowers, foliage and C-scrolls and with vacant shield-shaped cartouches, the teapot with a rising curved spout, foliate-decorated scroll handle and domed hinged cover with flower finial, the milk jug and sugar basin gilt-lined, Joseph Whipple & Co., Exeter 1877 - height of teapot 4¼in., 19.25oz.