A footed dish in polished nickel with an antique silhouette, the bowl lifted on a short pedestal foot. The size for nuts, olives, the wrapped chocolates by the door.

The foot is what makes it. A flat dish sits; a footed dish presides. Polished nickel reads like old silver without the polishing.

You set it on the bar with the almonds, the entry console with the matchbooks, the coffee table with the clementines.

For the host who serves the small thing properly. The wedding registry. The friend whose console has been waiting for a footed dish.

Polished nickel footed dish.