I am pleased to offer a Botanic Garden dinner plate in the Manchineel Tree or Hippomane Mancinella motif. It is the best example of a Manchineel Tree dinner plate that I have ever seen and looks like new.

To avoid crazing, the plate is temperature sensitive and can only be shipping if temps at our location and yours are above freezing and under around 85 degrees.

The transfer is 'over-glaze' and is nice and crisp looking. The glaze has like new shine with NO crazing and NO wear. Somebody took exceptional care of this dish over the years.


One of the most sought after and rare Botanic Garden flowers, the Manchineel Tree flower was an original dinner plate motif, introduced in 1972 and retired in 1983. It was inspired by image in a 1824 book,The Universal Herbal by Thomas Green.

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There is a pale green '5' near the plant name indicating that it was made in the late 1970's or early 1980's when Portmeirion was using a numbering scheme for motifs.

Size	10-1/2" across
Transfer	Very bright, shiny, colorful, and not faded at all. A perfect transfer. The orange seed pod on the top of the transfer tends to fade, but this one is very bright. The transfer was applied over the glaze and these types of transfers are very shiny with well defined edges.
Ground	Very white
Glaze	The glaze is exceptionally shiny and flawless overall. More shiny than most.
Chips/Cracks	None
Stains	None
Use Marks	Nome
Other Comments	Excellent opportunity to add a rare and minty Machineel Tree plate to your collection!

The ID mark is a very large Susan Williams-Ellis 2nd Trophy backstamp dating the dish to around 1978 to 1982.

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