Austrian enamelled steel bread bin

A well sized, rectangular white vitreous enamelled steel bread bin with a handled lid and holes allowing the bread to breathe. From the workshops of the Riess enamel-works in Ybbsitz, Austria, a company with roots dating to the 1550s, but who now being powered by their own hydroelectric plants, and with an enlightened social policy might be considered a model for twenty first century sustainable industry. 37cm by 26cm.