I am pleased to offer a Rhododendron or Rhododendron Lepidotum punch bowl cup. A series of little cups were made in the 1970's to be a part of a punch set. They have been discontinued for many years and are now getting hard to find.


The Rhododendron flower was an original 1973 coffee cup motif and later included on a bread and butter plates in 1988. It remains in a current motif and is in production today. It was based on an image in an 1840 book,Moral of Flowers by Mrs. Hey, illustrated by William Clarke, 1835 by A. Jacquemart.

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Size	3" across (not including the handle) and about 2" high
Transfer	Very bright and colorful with no flaws
Ground	Very white
Glaze	Nice shiny glaze with no other flaws seen. There is one tiny line of clean crazing on the outside and three other clean and short lines (1/2" or less) near the upper rim on the inside. The crazing is VERY hard to see.
Chips/Cracks	None
Stains	None, except for a slight amount of shelf wear on the unglazed bottom foot where it sits as shown in the photo below
Use Marks	None
Other Comments	A very nice example of a small pretty Rhododendron Botanic Garden 'potty'!

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