spoontray

English

Etymology

From spoon +‎ tray.

Noun

spoontray (plural spoontrays)

1. A tray for spoons.
   • 1969, Geoffrey A. Godden, “Some unexpected finds at Caughley :1”, in L[eonard] G[erald] G[wynne] Ramsey, editor, The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors, volume 171, London: The National Magazine Co. Ltd., page 21, column 2:

     A further complete article, a shaped-edged spoontray, has a clear incised cross on the underside, affording further proof that the incised cross marks were workmen's signs rather than factory marks and that they can occur on practically any eighteenth-century porcelain.

   • 1984, Simon Spero, Worcester Porcelain: The Klepser Collection, Minneapolis, Minn.: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts in association with Lund Humphries Publishers, London, →ISBN, page 63:

     This is the orthodox shape of spoontray at Worcester, introduced in about 1756 and continuing into the 1780s. From the early 1770s onwards, the standard lobed spoontray tends to have more steeply angled sides and becomes slightly larger in size. A lozenge-shaped spoontray was introduced from about 1760 to 1765 but this seems to have been only in conjunction with moulded patterns, cf. No.84.

   • 1985, Martin Miller, Judith Miller, compilers, Miller’s Antiques Price Guide 1986, volume VII, Maidstone, Kent: M.J.M. Publications Ltd., →ISBN, page 250:

     Among shapes so far discovered are teapots, mugs, jugs, coffee cups, bowls, plates, sauceboats and a spoontray.