Tag Archives: Pomona

Pomona Oatmeals

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

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The Hazel Nut:

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The Biggeraux Cherry and the Late Duke Cherry:

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The Ingestrie Pippin:

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The Teinton Squash Pear:

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The White Dutch Currant and the Red Currant:

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The L’Imperatrice Plum and the Reine Claude Plum:

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The Wild Blackberry both with and without leaf border :

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

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The Shropshire Damson both with and without leaf border:

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The Kiwi is the latest motif for Pomona in 2014:

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What about raspberries?

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Pomona Bread and Butter Plates

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

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They are hand-coloured engravings with very vivid colours.

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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:

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

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

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The plates here have differently sized motifs:

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The Hazel Nut is an all time favourite:

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The Ingestrie Pippin

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The Hoary Morning Apple

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The Teinton Squash Pear

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The Princess of Orange Pear

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The Wild Blackberry

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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.

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

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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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Pomona Egg Cups

 

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

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

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

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

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There are Pomona egg cups without the gooseberry leaf border:

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Most Pomona egg cups come with the leaf border:

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Pomona Trial Dishes

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 :

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

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

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The backstamp clearly states it is a sample:

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

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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.

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Pomona bowls for delicious fruit:

Strawberries in the Pomona fruitdrainer, simply delicious!

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

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or cherries…………

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or a melon mix in a vintage Pomona salad bowl:

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or any summer fruit mix:

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or black berries

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

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raspberries

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white grapes

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Autumn is the time for the apple harvest

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We like to make apple juice

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add a few blackberries or blue berries

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

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Pomona Teasets

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There are many different tea and coffee pots in the Pomona range. Most Pomona is in the round, romantic shape, but there are drumshapes as well.

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The Pomona motifs look well on the straight cups:

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Pomona usually has the Romantic shape, as can be seen here, these are really small cups:

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The cups come in various sizes:

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These are medium sized cups:

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And here are some big ones:

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and a few sugar bowls

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The tall cups go well with the tall coffee pot:

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Here is a large jug with 4 inch mugs:

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The small coffee pot was made for the Collectors Club:

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