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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:

Trials

Pomona Trial Dishes

July 7, 2014 Lia

I came across several Pomona dishes that never made it to production. One is a small 11 inch oval plate with the Biggeraux Cherry and the Ingestrie Pippin :

It has a small greyish oval backstamp.
Regular plates have one motif, such as here the Red Currant:

A larger 15 inch platter has the Roman Apricot. Here it is the shape, or rather the rim of the dish that is unusual:

The backstamp clearly states it is a sample:

Another 15 inch platter has the regular shape, but it features four smaller motifs instead of one large one:

It has the Wilmots Early Red, the Hoary Morning Apple, the Imperatrice Plum and the White Dutch Currants.

This platter has no backstamp at all, on the rim are the letters NF. Slightly mysterious, this wonderful platter.

Miscellaneous

Plant Pots

July 3, 2014 Lia

Botanic Garden always has had a great variety of planters and plant pots. Here are three small pots made for Kew Gardens:

These have the Forget Me Not, the Rhododendron and the Speedwell.

Here are my favourite 4 by 5 inch pots, with the original oatmeal motifs:

Thet are the Ivy Leafed Cyclamen, the Orchid, the Purple Iris, the Canterbury Bells, the Barbados Cotton Flower and the Orange Cactus.

Portmeirion also had boxed planters or cache pots, here seen with the Common Tomentil:

The backside of the box advised which plants they were meant for:

Here is a bell-shaped planter with the Trailing Bindweed:

Although many planters have the Botanic Garden motifs there are also Pomona planters, here seen with the Ingestrie Pippin, the Imperatrice Plum and the Red Currant:

and Birds of Britain planters, such as here with the Nuthatch:

The Spring Gentian can also be found on planters:

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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.