A Chinese silver three-piece service and a bowl, late 19th/20th century, the service comprising a teapot and cover, a milk jug and a sugar basin, each piece of octagonal section, the sides decorated in relief with a figure scene flanked by different flowering plants and bamboo, and with birds, a pair of ducks, a crab, a fish and a crayfish, simulated bamboo handles, spout and knop, the bowl repousse with quatrefoil panels enclosing figure scenes reserved on an incised cracked ice ground, the teapot with ivory fillets to the handle, the base of each marked Ts (Tien Shing) and character mark, (4), service 1130 gms (total weight), teapot 16 cm high, bowl 205 gms, 13.2 cm diameter