Vintage French Veuve Clicquot Champagne Ice Bucket Aluminium VCP 0711261

Veuve Clicquot champagne ice bucket

A Veuve Clicquot champagne ice bucket in spun aluminium, made in France and bearing the house's instantly recognisable golden VCP shield badge -- the seau a champagne, the classic French table tool for keeping a bottle at the right temperature from the first pour to the last. The form is clean and cylindrical, tapering gently upward, with a pair of cast ring handles mounted on elegant ball posts and three turned grooves encircling the body near the top and base. The bright yellow and black enamel crest reads "Clicquot Champagne / Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin" in full, exactly as it left the maison.

Aluminium ice buckets of this type were produced for French restaurants, brasseries and hotel dining rooms from the postwar decades onward, prized for their light weight and ability to hold the chill. The stamp on the underside reads "Made in France," confirming domestic manufacture. The polished silver finish and graphic brand badge make it equally at home on a bar cart, a dining sideboard or a kitchen shelf as a piece of French decorative barware. It holds a standard champagne or wine bottle comfortably.

Condition and patina consistent with age. Light surface scratching to the aluminium consistent with decades of use, and some minor denting visible inside the bowl; the crest badge shows slight lifting at one edge. Overall a handsome and very displayable piece.

Approximately 7.9 in diameter (20 cm).

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