Category Archives: Pomona

Pomona

Pomona Oatmeals

August 31, 2014 Lia

The Pomona range has always had lovely oatmeal bowls, such as the Hoary Morning Apple bowl:

The Hazel Nut:

The Biggeraux Cherry and the Late Duke Cherry:

The Ingestrie Pippin:

The Teinton Squash Pear:

The White Dutch Currant and the Red Currant:

The L’Imperatrice Plum and the Reine Claude Plum:

The Wild Blackberry both with and without leaf border :

The Wild Blackberry, the Roman Apricot, the Lane’s Prince Albert Apple, the Shropshire Damson, the Elsanta Strawberry:

The Shropshire Damson both with and without leaf border:

The Kiwi is the latest motif for Pomona in 2014:

What about raspberries?

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Pomona Bread and Butter Plates

August 31, 2014 Lia

Pomona was launched in 1982, with pictures from the English Pomological Magazine from the early 1800s.

They are hand-coloured engravings with very vivid colours.

The motifs on these six 7 inch plates are: Grimwoods Ruyal George, the Ingestrie Pippin, the Hazel Nut, Wilmots Early Red, L’Imperatrice Plum and the White Dutch Currant.

The White Dutch Currant was later replaced by the Red Currant, the image looks mirrored, the currants are now red:

The blue L Imperatrice Plum was replaced by the Reine Claude Plum:

The Biggeraux Cherry looked unripe and was therefore replaced by the Late Duke Cherry.

The plates here have differently sized motifs:

The Hazel Nut is an all time favourite:

The Ingestrie Pippin

The Hoary Morning Apple

The Teinton Squash Pear

The Princess of Orange Pear

The Wild Blackberry

Later motifs on plates with a leaf border are: the Lane’s Prince Albert Apple, the Roman Apricot, the Kiwi, the Shropshire Damson and the Elsanta Strawberry.

Some of these can also be found on no border plates:

Miscellaneous, Pomona

Pomona that isn’t Pomona

August 24, 2014 Lia

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.

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.

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:

They are lovely pictures:

They make a festive teatable

Even the butterflies love the fruit motifs

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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Pomona Egg Cups

August 17, 2014 Lia

The first egg cups in Pomona (and Botanic Garden and Birds of Britain) were shaped like tealight holders:

Later footed egg cups appeared, with the chain of fruit:

I have a few Pomona egg cups with a single fruit motif:

They are the Hoary Morning Apple, The Reine Claude Plum, the Roman Apricot and the Shropshire Damson.

There are Pomona egg cups without the gooseberry leaf border:

Most Pomona egg cups come with the leaf border:

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Pomona bowls for delicious fruit:

June 6, 2014 Lia

Strawberries in the Pomona fruitdrainer, simply delicious!

……or in any other lovely Pomona bowl for that matter…..

or cherries…………

or a melon mix in a vintage Pomona salad bowl:

or any summer fruit mix:

or black berries

or red currants from a Red Currant or White Dutch Currant oatmeal bowl:

raspberries

white grapes

Autumn is the time for the apple harvest

We like to make apple juice

add a few blackberries or blue berries

Nothing like a cup of freshly made hot juice on a cold autumn day

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Pomona Salad Bowls

June 6, 2014 Lia

Here are the beautiful Pomona salad bowls:

The motifs on these 5.5 inch bowls are: White Dutch Currant, Imperatrice Plum, Wild Blackberry, Late Duke Cherry, Queen of Sheba, Red Currant, Biggerraux Cherry, Teinton Squash Pear, Wilmots Early Red, Shropshire Damson, Hazel Nut, Ingestrie Pippin, Hoary Morning Apple, Grimwoods Royal Peach.

Here is the Wilmots Early Red, one of the Gooseberries. There is also the Queen of Sheba:

They are early motifs, retired soon after the range was launched.

The Hazel Nut is another early motif:

The Ingestrie Pippin, one of my favourites:

Here are the early Biggerraux Cherry and the Late Duke Cherry:

The White Dutch Currant was replaced by the Red Currant:

They are wonderful to look at and look great with a fruit salad.

There are also 5 inch salad bowls:

I have two different Hazel Nut bowls, one motif is much larger than the other:

Also one bowl has the leaf border, the other is borderless:

I am still hunting for more different motifs.

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Pomona dishes

June 6, 2014 Lia

These are the Pomona Grapes, the blue Raisin de Carmes and the white Sweetwater Grape. They are beautiful motifs, especially on the large dishes and the breadcrock. The motif on the lid of the breadcrock is the l’imperatrice Plum. On the left is a 15 inch oval platter, on the box is the 19 inch oval platter with the Raisin de Carmes. I took the picture in the fruit garden, next to our own grapes.