Sold for: £70
A Portmeirion earthenware collection of tableware in the Botanic Garden pattern, comprising various functional forms. The set features a deep salad bowl, a circular platter, a fluted tart dish, a cylindrical souffle dish, a small dessert bowl, and a circular lid with a central knob handle. Each piece is decorated with polychrome transfer-printed botanical illustrations featuring species such as Amaryllis Regina, Lonicera Periclymenum (Honeysuckle), and Cytisus Scoparius (Broom), interspersed with various butterfly and insect motifs and framed by a signature green laurel leaf border. The bases bear a transfer-printed mark in green and brown with a central oval reading “THE BOTANIC GARDEN circa 1818” above a ribbon reading “PORTMEIRION”, and further ribbons stating “made in England” and “copyright design”. There is also a partial impressed circular mark containing the word “TABLE”.
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