Hello. We like to collect well-designed vintage pottery (and lots of other stuff) from the 1950s,
'60s and '70s. Here are some pictures and info of a selection of the things we've found.

Friday, 25 January 2013

Textured surfaces from the 1960s. Portmeirion Totem.











Some time ago, I did a blog-post on a range of Portmeirion pottery with a wonderful printed design called Tivoli, remember this: Tivoli

Here is some more Portmeirion but this time the pottery is decorated with a series graphic motifs in raised relief and very pleasing it is too.

Designed by Susan Williams-Ellis, the range is Totem, it was first produced in 1963. The range was available in several colours including blue, green and white and was very popular.

The brown items shown here are from a coffee set. The set also had a very distinctive tall coffee pot (I hope to do a blog-post showing that soon).

Printed surfaces or textured? I'm not sure which I prefer. So as I can't decide, it's nice to have both in the collection. Susan Williams-Ellis designed other interesting surface designs for Portmeirion and I'll be doing further blog-posts on those in the near future. In the meantime, there's lots more information on Portmeirion here: Portmeirion pottery
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4 comments:

  1. Amazing Glaze25 January 2013 at 14:58

    They are just beautiful, I love the shape of the jug!

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  2. tove25 January 2013 at 21:14

    These are absolutely beautiful! I especially love the trio in the first image, what a great pattern! The colors are amazing too.

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  3. Ray G 26 January 2013 at 01:11

    One of my favourit designs from Portmeirion.

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  4. therese12 April 2013 at 08:18

    The symbols are icelandic magical sigils, called bind runes.

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