I am pleased to offer a Botanic Garden Orchid three inch high spice jar with a wooden lid. This motif is one of the six original oatmeal bowl flowers but is a quite rare variation. It is a 'cut-off' version, used only around 1980, with the purple bloom removed and with a different arrangement of insects. I think it was meant to be applied to areas where less space was available for the transfer.

The canister is in overall excellent condition with NO crazing and excellent varnish on the wooden lid! This jar is a factory 2nd due to a glaze flaw just above the flower. Please be sure to look below and see the full description and more photos...


The Orchid flower was one of the four original oatmeal motifs, introduced in 1972 and retired early in 1978, that did not have a Latin name printed next to the common name. The other three unnamed oatmeal motifs were retired in the same year. The design was inspired by an image in the 1840 botany book La Flore des Dames by A. Jacquemart.

The motif on this spice jar is a rare version with the top purple bloom removed and also has a different insect arrangement than the more common original motif.

---> Cut Off Orchid Close Up <---

Size	A little over 3" high without the lid and 2-3/8" across the bottom
Transfer	Excellent bright color without flaw
Ground	Very white. There are a few tiny black dots in the glaze just above the white part of the flower. Please see the two photos above.
Glaze	NO crazing or any other glaze flaw seen so is very appropriate for food storage
Chips/Cracks	None
Stains	None, except a very, very slight amount of shelf wear on the unglazed bottom ring where it sits on a surface. Please see the photo below.
Use Marks	None, no scrapes or stains
Other Comments	There is no wear on the original straight sided wooden lid as is so common on older BG canister lids and the varnish is not dried or cracked. The sealing gasket is a bit dry and could use a replacement. Replacement seals should be available directly from Portmeirion Pottery. An original Botanic Garden rare variant of the Orchid spice jar that is so hard to find!

The bottom carries a mustard colored oval 2nds ID mark. As mentioned and photographed above, there is a glaze flaw above the flower.

---> Bottom <---

---> ID Mark <---