Pomona that isn’t Pomona

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The Portmeirion Pomona range was launched in 1980, but before that Portmeirion had produced pottery with fruit motifs. This pottery  usually has a mustard coloured backstamp.

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Examples of this range are the 4 inch mug and the  four oatmeals.  These fruit motifs can still be found, there are six different fruits.

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I have another set of cups and saucers with early fruit motifs, purchased on a Swedish flea market and then sold to me by a Swedish china collector:

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They are lovely pictures:

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They make a festive teatable

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Even the butterflies love the fruit motifs

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I have never seen these fruit motifs before, either on Portmeirion or any other pottery. But they add a touch of happiness to any teatable

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