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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:

Botanic Garden

Botanic Garden Sunflower

August 20, 2014 Lia

In 2013 Portmeirion introduced a new dinner plate in the Botanic Garden range, the Sunflower:

The Sunflower also appears on mugs and jugs:

Here the Sunflower is on three different plate sizes:

Apart from the large salad bowl, still missing here, there is a 5.5 inch salad bowl:

and an 8 inch pasta bowl:

It is a delightful flower in the Botanic Garden

Botanic Garden

Portmeirionlore: Botanic Garden Bread and Butter Plates

July 20, 2014 Lia

There were six original 7 inch Bread and Butter plates in the Botanic Garden range, when it was launched in 1972:

They were the Spanish Gum Cistus, the Trailing Bindweed, the Meadow Saffron, the Citron, the Daisy and the Barbados Aloe.

Most motifs were from The Universal Herbal, by Thomas Green, published ca. 1820:

The Meadow Saffron, here seen with the original:

The Trailing Bindweed has differences in the position of the lettering:

At one point the Trailing Bindweed had a butterfly change, the colorful old butterfly was replaced by a yellow and blue one:

The oldest versions of the Bread and Butter plates have the script writing, later versions have other lettering:

Here is the original set with the newer lettering:

Very soon there was a seventh motif on the Bread and Butter plates, the Spring Gentian:

Spring Gentians now are rare and hard to find. A pity, it is such a lovely motif, with its small, bright blue flowers.

Later Bread and Butter plates were

the Ivy Leafed Cyclamen, the Barbados Cotton Flower, the Blue Primrose, Snow-Drop and Crocus, the Pansy, the Fuchsia, the Small Narcissus, the Rhododendron and the Barbados Cotton Flower.

As can be seen, there are two versions of the Barbados Cotton Flower, one with three flowers and one with two:

There are also two versions of the Snow-Drop and Crocus, he older one being lighter, whereas the newer version has darker colours:

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Botanic Garden special sets were for sale, comprising of one cup and saucer and one bread and butter plate:

There were two different plates, the Snow-Drop and Crocus and the Small Narcissus. They had the special anniversary backstamp:

And here is my latest, the Arborea:

There are several motifs that occur not only on Bread and Butter plates, but also on Salad Plates, or on Dinner Plates, or on all three, such as the Pink Parrot Tulip :

There are more such sets of three;

They are the Flowered Chrysanthemum, the Virgins Bower, the Christmas Rose, The Honeysuckle and the Asiatic Magnolia.

Here are a few sets of Dinner Plates with Bread and Butter plates, the Lily Flowered Azalea, the African Lily and the Sweet Pea:

These are Salad Plate motifs on Bread and Butter Plates, the Garden Lilac, the Treasure Flower, the Dog Rose and the Eastern Hyacinth:

There were Bread and Butter plates without the Botanic Garden leaf border, here are the Trailing Bindweed, (new version) the Pansy, the Blue Primrose and the Fuchsia:

There is a Millennium Bread and Butter plate:

Portmeirion have the Botanic Roses range, one of the roses is the Portmeirion Rose:

Other sets of Botanic Garden Bread and Butter plates are the Flowers of the Month.They are: January – Snowdrop, February – Sweet Violet, March – Wild Daffodil, April – Primula, May – Bluebell, June – Dog Rose, July – Pinks, August – Pansy, September – Aster, October – Dahlia, November – Bell Heather, December – Hellebore:

The Botanic Birds. They are the Chickadee, Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, Baltimore Oriole, Scarlet Tanager, Lesser Goldfinch and Western Bluebird:

and the Exotic Botanic Garden: Bird of Paradise, Moth Orchid, Winged Passion Flower, Hawaiian Hibiscus, Dragonfly , Red Ginger and White Waterlily:

And this one, a do-it-yourself plate perhaps?

Botanic Garden

Flowers of the Month

July 3, 2014 Lia

Botanic Garden has a range of Cups and Saucers with Bread and Butter Plates featuring a different flower for every month:

They are: January – Snowdrop, February – Sweet Violet, March – Wild Daffodil, April – Primula, May – Bluebell, June – Dog Rose, July – Pinks, August – Pansy, September – Aster, October – Dahlia, November – Bell Heather, December – Hellebore.

The saucer has the same flower as the cup and the plate:

September

October

November

They are a festive set for a joyful occasion:

Birds of Britain

Portmeirionlore: Birds of Britain Plates

June 22, 2014 Lia

Like the Botanic Garden range, the Birds of Britain started out with sets of six different plates. The 11 inch dinnerplates were the Grey Phalarope, the Little Egret, the Magpie, the Harlequin Duck, the Barnowl and the Black Cock:

The Barnowl was thought to bring bad luck in some countries and was therefore withdrawn. The Black Cock was also withdrawn,”as its name was thought to discourage sales”. They were replaced by the Wood Duck and the Common Sandpiper:

The older dinnerplates have the green band, but I have two with another border, the Harlequin Duck and the Magpie:

Portmeirion also created a series of four Birds of America:

They are the Mallard, the Pintail, the Bobwhite Quail and the Ruffed Grouse. Here they have the Botanic Garden leafed border. There are more items in this short-lived range, such as a set of 4 inch mugs:

There are six different 8 inch salad plates:

They are the Waxwing, the White Wagtail, the Turtle Dove, the Roller, the Rose Coloured Starling and the Hoopoo.

I have four of these plates in the borderless variety:

Here is the Rose Coloured Starling with another border:

The 8 inch soup plates and the 6 inch bread and butter plates have the same birds:

They are the Nuthatch, the Bullfinch, the Nightingale, the Chaffinch, the Cirl Bunting and the Kingfisher.

My plates all have the old green band, later Portmeirion introduced the oak leafed border:

Except for the changes in the dinner plates, Portmeirion kept the same birds on the plates all the time. A new range of birds was introduced recently, the Botanic Garden Birds:

They are the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, Baltimore Oriole, Chickadee, Lesser Goldfinch, Western Bluebird, and Scarlet Tanager. Lovely birds, on dinnerplates with the Botanic Garden Border.