A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL SILVER-GILT DESSERT STANDS, in the Renaissance style, each on domed spreading circular base, chased with grotesque masks, fruits and strapwork and surmounted by a putto, the three curved stems with lion's paw feet and terminating in horned grotesque masks and applied with fruits and foliage, the rim cast and chased with putti, masks, dogs, grotesque beasts and foliage, probably Austro-Hungarian, circa 1870, glass-liners lacking