Portmeirion Monte Sol dinnerware and coffee sets were very popular in the sixties.
The range was launched in 1965
Blue-green and lilac-turquoise were most often seen:
But there were also combinations with pink and yellow:
I am still hunting for a coffee set
The sailing ships date from the sixties. My sailing ships are an odd lot, but I find them very appealing.
These pictures were taken on a local exhibition:
Here is a set of six 4 inch mugs. Are there any jugs?
There have always been daisies in the Botanic Garden range
The Queen’s Hidden Garden range was released in 1986. Pictures were used from the book by David Bellamy and Marjorie Lyon, wild flowers from the gardens of Buckingham Palace.
the Queens Hidden Garden range was quite extensive, there were cups, plates, bowls in various sizes:
here are two large cups:
In 1985 Portmeirion, commissioned by the Thimble Collectors Club, produced a trial thimble, featuring the Heartsease.
The following year a collection of twelve different Botanic Garden thimbles were made exclusively for the TCC.
The Thimble Collectors Club no longer exists, and it is said that only very few sets of twelve are now known to be in the possession of Portmeirion collectors.
In this set of sixteen you can see: Common Tomentil, Spring Gentian, Red Star, Orchid, Ivy Leafed Cyclamen, Broom (2 versions), Rhododendron, Barbados Cotton Flower, Speedwell (2 versions), Honeysuckle, Forget Me Not, Daisy, Scarlet Pimpernel and Heartsease.
When our old kitchen was falling apart, after many years of faithful service, we had a new one installed last year. We decided that apart from being beautiful and practical, it had to be Portmeirion. This is it:
It took me quite a while to get enough wall tiles together:
Here is a teaset with forget-me-nots in the meridian shape. I got it complete and boxed, it must be more than 40 years old. This particular motif is called Blue Garland.
This is the older version, with the rims on the outside. Later versions show the the teapot in the same shape as the Botanic Garden teapot.
The cups come in various sizes.
In 1972 Portmeirion launched tableware decorated with “ferocious fish”, called The Kingdom of the Sea.
The salad plates with the huge crabs and crayfish look rather scary to me.
There are six different dinner plates with exotic fish:
This picture was taken at a local exhibition:
The Sea Porcupine:
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:
The Moorish Idol:
The Humped Back Coffer Fish:
The Cray Fish:
The Common Lobster:
The Spider Crab:
The Totem coffee sets were all the rage in the sixties
Here is a small collection of Blue Totem items on display:
The white Totem coffee pot:
These are the tall Portmeirion coffee pots from the sixties, here in various bright colours in the Greek Key motif
