• Mid century Baret Ware Celebrity ice bucket with cocktail print and faux leather handle raised
  • Front of the cream tin ice bucket printed with cocktail glasses, bottles and lime wedges
  • Side view of the retro ice bucket showing the ice tongs hanging beside the handle
  • Brass ball knob and gilt pattern on the ice bucket lid
  • Close up of the pink glass, lime wedge and bottle print with gold lustre dashes
  • Brown faux leather handle and worn gilt rim on the Baret Ware ice bucket
  • Open ice bucket showing the white plastic liner and the underside of the lid
  • Looking down into the intact white plastic liner of the ice bucket
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The Blue Loft

Mid Century Baret Ware Celebrity Ice Bucket in Cream with Cocktail Print

£32.00
£32.00
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  • One of a kind

Pink cocktail glasses, a bottle tipping out its last golden drop, wedges of lime and olives on sticks: this ice bucket is a whole cocktail hour printed on tin, and it has been ready for a party since the middle of the last century.

It was made in England by Baret Ware and sold as the Celebrity ice bucket. The cream ground is scattered with gold lustre dashes and soft pastel stripes, finished with a gilt rim and a brass ball knob on the lid. Baret Ware was known for its brightly printed tinware, from trays to ice buckets, at the height of the home bar craze in the 1950s and 60s, when every drinks trolley needed one, and this example still has its maker's label to the base.

Inside, the white plastic liner is intact, so it is ready for ice tonight. A brown faux leather handle swings up for carrying. It measures 21.5cm high, not including the handle, and 17cm in diameter, and weighs 510g.

The lid has a little rust, mostly on the underside and around the rim, and the gilt has worn in places after decades of parties. The print on the body is still bright and cheerful, and we think the wear only adds to its charm.

Put it on a drinks trolley beside a decanter and a set of coupes, or keep it on a sideboard as a home for corks, bottle openers and cocktail sticks. With the lid on, it also makes a fun retro storage tin for a kitchen shelf. For anyone who mixes a proper Martini or collects mid century barware, it would make a lovely Christmas present.

Ice not included, but strongly encouraged.

Mid century Baret Ware Celebrity ice bucket with cocktail print and faux leather handle raised
Front of the cream tin ice bucket printed with cocktail glasses, bottles and lime wedges
Side view of the retro ice bucket showing the ice tongs hanging beside the handle
Brass ball knob and gilt pattern on the ice bucket lid
Close up of the pink glass, lime wedge and bottle print with gold lustre dashes
Brown faux leather handle and worn gilt rim on the Baret Ware ice bucket
Open ice bucket showing the white plastic liner and the underside of the lid
Looking down into the intact white plastic liner of the ice bucket