King Charles III silver wine coaster

Taken from a late 18th century pattern, this heavy gauge solid silver wine coaster with its rope pattern border, can hold a bottle, magnum or most decanters. The satin polished wood base features the traditional central silver button that could be easily engraved with initials, monogram or family crest, for example.

Silver wine coasters, or wine sliders as they were initially called, originated in mid-18th-century England, as upper-class wine drinkers sought a way to slide their wine bottles or decanters across the table.

By the late 1800s, the term bottle or wine coaster came into parlance to describe a low, round tray, often with wheels, used to hold a wine bottle to wheel or coast the bottle to the diners around the table at dinner parties. The name derived from a coaster ship that traded from port to port along the coast.