Description

Portmeirion Salad Servers The Holly and The Ivy 1980s England

A pair of salad servers in good condition.

“The Holly and The Ivy” is the pattern name. It has red and blue berries with green leaves.

Size: 24cm long x 6cm wide spoon  Weight: 155g

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