A pair of silver butter dishes circa 1900

 Pierced in classical style and chased with swags linking heraldic cartouches, the bases with spurious marks. Together with a silver plated dessert stand in classical style with pendant profile medallions, all with blue glass liners
18 oz. excluding liners

one handle terminal re-soldered, the plated item with chips to the blue liner, foot missing
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The marks on one of the pair are listed in Jackson, revised edition, 1989, as unascribed Irish provincial, circa 1780, found on a pair of pierced oval butter dishes in Adam style