Category Archives: Kingdom of the Sea

Kingdom of the Sea

In 1972 Portmeirion launched tableware decorated with “ferocious fish”,  called The Kingdom of the Sea.

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The salad plates with the huge crabs and crayfish look rather scary to me.IMG_5338

There are six different dinner plates with exotic fish:

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This picture was taken at a local exhibition:

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The Sea Porcupine:

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Although there is some uncertainty as to the correct names of the fish, (sometimes the name on the back is not the name of the fish on the front of the plate) I will mention a few here. This is the Golden Angel Fish:

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The Moorish Idol:

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The Humped Back Coffer Fish:

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The Cray Fish:

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The Common Lobster:

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The Spider Crab:

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