- Date
- 1920 – 1935
- Material
- metal; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0757
- Description
- A painted, green metal, tin, octagonal, long tray with handle at each end, and rectangular picture attached at centre. Lip of tray made by folding up at each side of the angles and rolling the edge. Thin, angular cast metal handles attached to outside at each end with pins. Large, rectangular pictu…
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- Title
- Serving Tray
- Date
- 1920 – 1935
- Material
- metal; paper
- Dimensions
- 2.8 x 35.8 x 55.8 cm
- Description
- A painted, green metal, tin, octagonal, long tray with handle at each end, and rectangular picture attached at centre. Lip of tray made by folding up at each side of the angles and rolling the edge. Thin, angular cast metal handles attached to outside at each end with pins. Large, rectangular picture on heavy paper attached to centre of tray depicts 19th century, country inn scene complete with gentlemen sitting by the fire with small dog, while serving woman lays the table. Entire tray front and back coated with lacquer causing a brownish colouration in the crevices and around the edges of the bottom. Picture signed in bottom left corner "Harry Eliott".
- Subject
- households
- kitchen
- decorative
- Harry Eliott
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0757
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