An Irish three-piece bachelor's tea set, John Smith, Dublin, 1882-1885 comprising: a teapot, a two-handled sugar bowl and a milk jug, the teapot's bulbous body moulded in relief with a band of scrolls enclosing a pair of vacant cartouches, above a band of stiff-leaf decoration, associated leaf-capped handle, the hinged cover with acorn finial, on a spreading circular foot, later wooden fillets, the milk jug and two-handled sugar bowl applied with snake scale handles, the teapot 14,5cm high,695g all in (3)