Description

Portmeirion Pomona Breakfast Cups 1980s Fruit 3

Susan Williams-Ellis designed the Pomona range for Portmeirion in 1982.

Pomona is the Roman goddess of fruit.

These are oven to table, dishwasher safe and microwave proof.

The 3 breakfast cups are in very good condition.

“The Albany Morning Apple” is in excellent condition.

“The Teinton Squash Pear”  has a brown dot on the rim.

“Grimwades Royal George”  has a chip on the base.

Size All: 6cm tall x 8cm diameter  Weight: 520g

Portmeirion Pottery was founded in 1960 by Susan Williams-Ellis and her husband and the company is still operating today.  Their most successful ranges are the botanical ones, including Pomona, that are decorated with a variety of floral illustrations adapted from Thomas Green’s Universal or-Botanical, Medical and Agricultural Dictionary (1817).

For more on the history of Portmeirion goto http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/817a.htm