New Portmeirion ware comes in boxes.

Early Portmeirion boxes and packaging had drawings by Susan Williams-Ellis:

These boxes are rather tatty, but then they are about 40 years old.

Later boxes and packaging had a variety of colours:

Planters with advice as to which plants they were suitable for:

Shell dishes

The bathroom series had a set consisting of a soapdish and a beaker, beautifully packaged:

There were beautiful platters in half open boxes:

there were comports, the boxes suggesting all sorts of treats for festive occasions:

as well as suggestions for a party pile-up:

like this?

Lasagna dishes and flan dishes

Planters and small china boxes

Sweet dishes

Tea pot stands

 

Vases in all shapes and sizes

More and newer boxes to follow later