British Country Tray, High

Lovely Colonial style tray table reproduction. What a lot of uses for a table like this. Serving snacks, displaying a beautiful model boat, working on your crossword puzzle. Just standing there in the room looking fantastic! Endless possibilities. An elegant serving tray with classic handgrips. Made of rich and sturdy mahogany and inlaid with a Mariner's Star. Really easy set up and storage. Detachable legs also fold up. Serving tray has classic 19th century ergonomic handgrips.

Hand made in wood, measuring 22.4" long, 14.00" wide, and 28.5" high.

A Little British Country Tray Information

The Mariner's Star which is inlaid in the British Country Tray, is a common nautical design. Also called the compass rose, it has appeared on charts and maps since the 1300's when the portolan charts first made their appearance.

Originally, this device was used to indicate the directions of the winds (and it was then known as a wind rose), but the 32 points of the compass rose come from the directions of the eight major winds, the eight half-winds and the sixteen quarter-winds.

Whew.

The colors on the figure are supposedly the result of the need for graphic clarity rather than a mere cartographical whim. On a rolling ship at night by the light of a flickering lamp, these figures had to be clearly visible. Therefore the eight principle points of the compass are usually shown on the compass rose in black which stands out easily.

Well, all of that is fine and dandy for background information but the Mariner's Star is also just a very nice design! Inlaid with great skill and care in the rich mahogany wood of the British Country Tray, it will add warmth and perhaps a bit of history to any room.

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