Ranleigh Art Deco Chrome Cocktail Tray

$125.00

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Ranleigh Art Deco Chrome Cocktail Tray

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KOBK.26.OBJ.122

Ranleigh Art Deco Chrome Cocktail Tray

$125.00

Specifications

Australia, Art Deco, 1930s-40s

Ranleigh, Australian; stamped RANLEIGH beside the handles

Chrome-plated over a pressed-board base; twin ring handles and fluted Deco corner brackets

Canted (octagonal) corners; engine-turned field of overlapping circles, the Ranleigh signature

Standing on four corner feet, a lift-and-serve drinks tray

Approx 44.5 cm wide, 28 cm high, 4.5 cm deep

Polished, bright chrome; fine surface hazing and etching to the top visible in raking light, with light scratching, scattered speckling and minor wear to the handle mounts; an old torn label to the underside

Every KOBK object is one of one and carries its age honestly. Expect marks, wear and patina as part of the piece; any specific fault is noted above. Where an object is photographed on a stand, the stand is included.

Notes

Ranleigh was the name on Australia's Art Deco drinks service, the local chrome that dressed a thousand cocktail hours between the wars. This is one of their trays, stamped Ranleigh beside each handle, with the canted corners and fluted brackets of the earlier Deco line and the engine-turned field of overlapping circles that was the house signature, made to catch the light with a glass set on it.

The chrome is still bright and throws its pattern about, with the light scratching and speckle any tray this age earns, a faint hazing to the top that shows in a raking light, and a little wear where the handles are gripped. Marked, dateable and unmistakably Deco, it is the sort of small, useful, good-looking thing that does its job and looks the part doing it.

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