A small circular copper tray by The Art Crafts Shop of Buffalo, New York is decorated with raised green enamel vines and four turquoise enameled flowers. The flat bottom of the tray forms an open center, around which a grid of branching lines extends toward the rim. The piece dates to the firm's brief period of enamel production in the early 1900s.
Four stylized blue flowers, each with eight petals and a dark center, are set at the cardinal points around the open center. Green enameled vines radiate outward in a cross shaped grid, terminating in holly like leaf forms near the rim. The copper ground carries a mottled brown patina that darkens within the recessed lines. The flowers and vines sit slightly below the surrounding copper surface.
The Art Crafts Shop was formed around 1902 in Buffalo by Otto Heintz and Bernard Carpenter, with Carpenter serving as principal designer. The firm produced patinated copper dishes and desk pieces decorated with brightly colored enamel for only a few years before transitioning around 1906 to the silver overlay bronze work that became the hallmark of the successor Heintz Art Metal Shop, making surviving enameled examples scarce.
The underside is impressed "The Art Crafts Shop, Buffalo, N.Y." with model number 202. The tray measures 6 inches in diameter.
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