Best Trudie Blue Floral Hand-painted Enamelware Tray

An enamel tray is the piece you reach for when a wood board feels too heavy and a glass one feels too precious. This enamelware tray is hand-painted in a blue floral pattern rather than machine printed, so it carries the small variations that only a brush leaves behind. Carry drinks out to the garden, corral a coffee setup on the counter, or use it as the base of a centerpiece with candles and a low vase.

Enamelware earns its place on a table because it is genuinely shatter resistant, which makes an enamel serving tray a safer bet than ceramic anywhere people are standing up, moving around, and reaching across each other. As a floral serving tray it also works when nothing is on it at all: leave this decorative tray out on an island or a console and the corner still looks considered. It is the sort of piece that gets handed down rather than replaced.

What is enamelware? Enamelware is tableware built on a metal base with a hard decorative finish applied over it, which makes it shatter resistant rather than breakable like glass or ceramic. It has long been used for picnics, camp kitchens, and outdoor tables because it stands up to being knocked about.