Question about a Portmeirion cup

Hello all.

I live in Sweden and I have, without knowing it, owned two
portmeirion tea cups with saucers for a few years and they have always been my
favourites! I bought them for on a flea market in Sweden.

Recently,
I dropped one of the cups on the floor and only after that did I look
for the brand and tried to learn more about the cups to find a new one.
I have been looking on Ebay.co.uk and on the official Portmeirion
homepage, but I haven't been able to find any information about the
motif of my cups anywhere.

I'm now very curious about what the motif might be called
and when it was sold or manufactured.

Portmeirion is quite unknown in Sweden so it's only now looking online, that i realise that it's a whole world of
cups and motifs...

Thankful for any answers! :)

This is the cup:

I realise now i might have posted this in the wrong forum, sorry about that!

From the worn look of it, i guess it must be older than 1980 at least?
Yes i looked everywhere to find this motif, i couldn't find it among the botanic rose patterns... I hope someone will know something about it.

They never made any export-only-cups i guess? In that case it could have been bought here in Sweden, but i doubt it.. I think someone bought two cups when they visited England. I wish the cups could speak...

I'm afraid I don't recognise it either and it doesn't appear in any of my reference books. I sell Portmeirion but the stuff from the 60s mainly and I've never seen this design before - to be honest, if it wasn't stamped I'd never have suggested Portmeirion as a possible maker. For what it's worth, the backstamp style and the flowery design itself all say 1970s to me.

Yes, from the looks of it i would also have guessed 70s, somehow.. with the colours and all. Thank you for your efforts, it's a pity this one isn't among the more common ones online. I will continue to look on ebay regularly! I will also send emails to some collectors if i find any addresses online. I just want the name and year of it. Thanks again / Ebba

thanks, i'll do that!

Have you tried Replacements.com?

(I remember the '70's. Those roses fit right in!)

Carolyn

I got this answer from a very helpful person (S. Mckay) that i emailed:

"What you have is an "open stock" Giant Cup and Saucer.
In the early 1970s inexpensive floral transfers were bought by Portmeirion to produce decorative items like chamber pots and the giant cups. Portmeirion own redundant transfers from the 1960s were also used.

There were so many different transfers used that it is unlikely that you will find one identical to the broken one but you will certainly find a similar one on E-Bay and it will not cost much."

Problem solved! I'll look for a simliar one :)