Portmeirion Pottery Cylinder Coffee Set, Sailing Ships, SM4-SSS30
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Portmeirion Vintage Sailing Ships Cylinder Style Coffee Set, Designed by Susan Williams-Ellis.

A cylinder shaped coffee set in the Sailing Ships design.

This set comprises of a cylinder coffee pot, milk jug, sugar bowl and six cups and saucers.

There is an overglazed production mark on the base of the coffee pot handle, a production pimple on the jug and some minor staining on the base edge.  There are production marks on a cup handle and all items have some age related crazing.

Please check the rest of our shop for more examples in this design.

Approx Dimensions:-

Coffee Pot

13 in (33 cm) tall to top of lid knob

8.5 in (21.5 cm) spout to handle

3.5 in (9 cm) diam

Milk Jug

4 in (10 cm) tall 

4.75 in (12 cm) spout to handle

2.5 in (6 cm) diam

Sugar Bowl

2.25 in (5.5 cm) tall

3.25 in  (8.5 cm) diam

Coffee Cup

3.25 in (8.5 cm) tall

2.5 in (6.5 cm) diam

Saucer

5.25 in (13.5 cm) diam

Sailing Ships

The Sailing Ships design is one of the earliest designs used by Portmeirion, coming from one of very few designs from Gray's Pottery that Susan Williams-Ellis liked enough to continue using after Portmeirion had taken over Gray's. From 1962 the large range of Sailing Ships and the Mariner's Compass motif were reused on Susan's cylinder design and were used on coffee sets, covered boxes, tankards, plates, chamber pots, storage jars etc. The fashionable turquoise colour was introduced in the late sixties and continued into the seventies, until the last stocks of the print were destroyed in the Portmeirion fire in 1978. This range has now become highly collectable.