I am pleased to offer an unusual Citron or Citrus porringer bowl with straight sides. This shape was manufactured in the very early days of Botanic Garden and is quite unusual. Not many of these bowls are seen and must have had a limited production life.

It is in excellent condition with no signs of use, scratches or wear. However, it does have overall very clean and hard to see crazing. Crazing on the very early pieces is almost certain to be found.


I believe this porringer bowl shape was only made with the Citron motif and was only made in the very early years, around 1972 or 1973, of Botanic Garden.

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The Citron motif was discontinued long ago and has not been produced in many years. It was an original bread and butter plate motif, introduced in 1972 and retired in 1980. It was inspired by image in a 1824 book,The Universal Herbal by Thomas Green.

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Size	Almost 8" across the top, 2" high and 7-1/4" across the bottom foot
Transfer	Excellent bright and colorful transfer. The plant name is done using the oldest 1970s script writing is nice and dark.
Ground	Very white
Glaze	Very shiny glaze! Overall clean crazing is present which is hard to see unless looking under a bright light.
Chips/Cracks	None
Stains	None, even the unglazed bottom foot is very clean
Use Marks	I do not see any signs of use or scratches. Other than crazing, it looks like it was never used.
Other Comments	Since it has overall crazing, it should not be used with wet foods and should be washed quickly in clean dishwater. A very unique and rare Citron porringer shape bowl!

The ID mark is the oldest and early 1st Trophy ID mark.

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I have had several of these straight side bowls and all have the ID mark off to one side. They also have two or three stilt marks on the bottom where it sat during firing.

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