I am pleased to offer an excellent Botanic Garden Honeysuckle or Pericylmenum Lonicera dinner plate. The Honeysuckle was originally made in a dark and later in a pale version. This plate is the darker version. Please see the photos below for a comparison.

It is in great condition with a very bright flower and shiny glaze. It is very shiny with no signs of use with no silver lines, scratches, or crazing. The only issue I see is a tiny factory flaw, a pin head sized spot, on the inside rim. Too small to photograph, it is described below.


The Honeysuckle was introduced in 1983 as a dinner plate motif and was retired in 1999. Toward the last few years of this motif, there was also a Pale version with yellow and peach colored flowers versus the brighter pink and orange flowers present on the original flower. Insect arrangements are different on each version as well. The design was inspired by an antique 1835 botanical illustration by William Clarke in the book Moral of Flowers by Mrs. Hey.

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A comparison of the Dark and Light versions are below...

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Size	10-1/4" across
Transfer	Very bright and colorful with no flaws. This is an overglaze transfer that is more crisp and well defined than most.
Ground	Very white
Glaze	No crazing and very shiny glaze everywhere. Too small to photograph and caused at the factory, there is a very small pin head sized darker spot in a white area near the inner rim. it could be a spot of sand, common on older Portmeirion, but so small I cannot tell for sure.
Chips/Cracks	None
Stains	None
Use Marks	None at all. There are not even any little stacking marks so commonly seen on just about everything.
Other Comments	A nice shiny original Dark Honeysuckle dinner plate to complete your Botanic Garden set!

The back is marked with a large Crest ID backstamp indicating that it was made in the early or middle 1980's.

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