I am pleased to offer a Botanic Garden original Oatmeal Bowl featuring the Canterbury Bells or Red Star motif. The Canterbury Bells is one of the original six oatmeal flowers, retired in 1978, and also one of the four that did not have an assigned name.

The bowl is about as nice as can be with a perfect transfer and glaze and showing very, very few signs of use, wear, or crazing. It is so rare to find a retired original motif oatmeal bowl in such wonderful condition. Please be sure to look below for a full description.


The Canterbury Bells 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.

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Size	About 6-1/2" across the top and 2" high
Transfer	Excellent, no fading, and colorful with no flaws
Ground	Very white
Glaze	Nice very shiny glaze with no flaws and NO crazing. With a Crest ID mark, this bowl is more resistant to crazing than bowls with older ID marks.
Chips/Cracks	None
Stains	None
Use Marks	None, except for a few VERY hard to see shallow, short, and narrow stacking marks from another item stacked on top. Mentioned only to make a completely accurate description.
Other Comments	A wonderful original Canterbury Bells oatmeal bowl in exceptional condition!

Below is a generic photo (with a Crest ID) of a Botanic Garden oatmeal bowl to give you a better idea of the bowl's shape.

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The oatmeal bowl is marked on the bottom with a Crest ID backstamp.

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