Tag Archives: 13 inch

Millennium Plates

Portmeirion produced the Millennium Collection in 1999 and 2000. Most items featured the new Portmeirion Rose, such as the dinner plate:

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and a range of smaller plates, bowls and dishes:

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Here is a 9 inch plate:

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One Millennium plate comes from the Botanic Garden range and has the Garden Lilac:

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There was a 13 inch platter, made exclusively for Debenhams, featuring the Lily Flowered Azalea, with the green Botanic Garden border. Mine is a trial, with a gold border:

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Here is the backstamp:

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Birds of Britain Platters

Osprey Platter:

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The platters and large dishes in the Birds of Britain range are  spectacular. This is the Little Egret, here on a 13 inch platter:

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The Pheasant, 13 inch, here seen together with a trial pheasant plate:

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The Barnacle Goose, 13 inch round platter, pictured in Sea Kale:

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The Wood Duck on the beach:

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The oval Wood Duck platter comes in two sizes, 15 and 13 inch:

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The 15 inch Mute Swan:

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The Fieldfare on the seashore:

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The Osprey:

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There are many beautiful oven dishes, platters and tureens in the Birds of Britain range, the Mute Swan, the Pheasant, the Common Sandpiper and the tureen with the smaller birds:

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The Common Sandpiper is depicted on an oval dish:

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The same bird can be seen on this lasagna dish, only now it is called the Snipe:

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One bird, the same picture, two different names:

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The outdoor pictures were taken on the beach near our home.

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Portmeirionlore: Oval Platters in Botanic Garden

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In 1972 the original Botanic Garden range had six 13 inch oval plates and one 15 inch platter with the African Daisy:

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The motifs on the 13 inch platters were the same as on the first 8 inch salad plates: Woody Nightshade, Water Melon, Red Pepper, Night Flowering Cactus, Dog Rose and Eastern Hyacinth.

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Of two of these platters I also have an 11 inch version the Water melon and the Dog Rose:

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The Woody Nightshade has a version without the extra butterflies:

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There is another early 15 inch platter with a lovely double version of the Mexican Lily:

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The African Daisy platter later appeared in a version with more flowers, in brighter colours:

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There are also 11 inch oval plates, featuring the salad plate motifs:

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The motifs here are Treasure Flower, Dog Rose, Water Melon, Eastern Hyacinth and White Gum Cistus.

Another 11 inch oval plate features the Slender Columbine:

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Portmeirion  also produced 19 inch fish platters with spectacular motifs. The oldest was a combination of the Blue Passion Flower and the Dog Rose:

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Later the fish platter featured the Austrian Lily, which was only produced from 1990 to 1993:

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Aren’t they wonderful?

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Pomona dishes

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.

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On this lasagna dish you can see the Amicua Melon, an early Pomona motif that was retired too soon.

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It really is a marvellous motif:

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The Ingestrie Pippin apples on this platter are beautiful:

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Pomona also had a series of 11 inch oval plates:

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These have the  Red Currant, the Hoary Morning Apple, the Royal George Peach and the Biggareux Cherry

One 11 inch plate is a trial, with a small greyish oval backstamp:

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and this is a special 15 inch platter with no backstamp at all:

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