Early 20th Century Irish silver ‘potato’ or dish ring in the Rococo style. Ubiquitous on the dining tables of Ireland’s elite from the late eighteenth century up until the Edwardian era. In Ireland the dish ring was almost exclusively used to support dishes of piping hot potatoes, hence they are often called potato rings. This one features a pierced depiction of a stag being hunted by a hound, both surrounded by foliate motifs and featuring a central escutcheon. The silver marks clearly identify the piece as of Irish manufacture, 1906. Made for the grand Belfast silver makers and jewellers, Sharman Dermott Neill (Sharman D. Neill afterwards), the silver was assayed in Dublin as Belfast did not have an assay office. The original blue glass insert sets the silver pierced work in vibrant relief.
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