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Birds of Britain

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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Birds of Britain

Portmeirionlore: Birds of Britain Plates

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:

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The Barnowl was thought to bring bad luck in some countries and was therefore withdrawn. The Black Cock was also withdrawn,”as its name was thought to discourage sales”.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:

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

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Portmeirion also created a series of four Birds of America:

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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:

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There are six different 8 inch salad plates:

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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:

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Here is the Rose Coloured Starling with another border:

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

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

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

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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:

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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.

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