I am pleased to offer a retired Purple Iris pin dish. This motif and three other oatmeal bowl unnamed flowers were retired very early in 1978. The dish is in excellent condition with a nice bright purple flower.

This dish has overall VERY clean crazing but has excellent glaze, bright transfer and no signs of use! Please be sure to look below for more details.


The Purple Iris 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.

Size	4-1/2" across with a lip of just under 3/4" high
Transfer	Perfect, very bright, and colorful without fading or flaws
Ground	Very white
Glaze	Overall VERY clean hard to see crazing is present with nice shiny glaze and no other glaze flaw seen. Most Botanic Garden of this age, between 1972 and 1978, does have some age related crazing.
Chips/Cracks	None
Stains	None
Use Marks	None, there are no scratches or other indications of use
Other Comments	An excellent retired Botanic Garden pin dish with an original oatmeal Iris!

Seen on the bottom, the mark is a 1st Trophy ID 'Copyright Design' backstamp.

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