Susan Williams Ellis Seahorse Ceramic Jar with Pure Sea Salt
Susan Williams Ellis Seahorse Ceramic Jar with Pure Sea Salt
Susan Williams Ellis Seahorse Ceramic Jar with Pure Sea Salt

Susan Williams Ellis Seahorse Ceramic Jar with Pure Sea Salt

Limited edition Refillable ceramic
£21.50
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A limited edition ceramic salt jar in pale green, circled with seahorses and shells, made in collaboration with the magical Susan Williams-Ellis Foundation and filled with 100g of our Pure Sea Salt.

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  • Height10.5 cm
  • Contains100g Pure Sea Salt, PDO
  • IncludedA wooden spoon
  • The jarRefillable, clip-top ceramic
  • IllustrationsSusan Williams-Ellis

A limited edition ceramic salt jar in pale green, circled with seahorses and shells, made in collaboration with the magical Susan Williams-Ellis Foundation and filled with 100g of our Pure Sea Salt.

Susan Williams-Ellis is a Welsh design icon and the artist behind Portmeirion Pottery. The daughter of Clough William-Ellis, renowned architect behind Wales’ wonder of the world Portmeirion, she has had our heart for a long time and we're so pleased to be able to celebrate her work with our latest jar. 

Inspired by the landscapes, flowers and sea around her, she brought colour, pattern and a wonderfully free spirit to everyday life.

Our new refillable jar carries her illustrations of marine life, from sea shells to seahorses. Seahorses are a part of our own origin story here at Halen Môn, so we are particularly delighted to share these illustrations. Breeding seahorses at the Anglesey Sea Zoo, something they will only do in crystal clean water - told us a lot about the waters surrounding us here on the Menai Strait.

Size: 10.5cm high. Each jar comes with a wooden spoon.

Her drawn shells, and some gathered ones.
iv · Her drawn shells, and some gathered ones.
‘I had always absolutely loved rock pools,’ she said, ‘a whole little shining and complete world it seemed to me.’
Nine shells and the maker's mark, from above.
v · Nine shells and the maker's mark, from above.
Susan Williams-Ellis
Susan Williams-Ellis

The designer

Susan Williams-Ellis, 1918–2007

Susan Williams-Ellis, artist, designer and daughter of the Bloomsbury group, founded Portmeirion Pottery in 1960 along with her husband Euan.

Her father, Clough William-Ellis, was the renowned architect behind Wales’ wonder of the world Portmeirion. She is, perhaps, best known for her ceramic designs. Her Botanical collection was impossibly successful – if you don’t have anything from it, then you certainly know someone who does.

Her exquisitely layered paintings celebrate the sea and the Welsh coast like no others. ‘I had always absolutely loved rock pools,’ she said, ‘a whole little shining and complete world it seemed to me.’

One newspaper columnist in the 1950s described her as the first ever ‘mermaid’ artist, referring to her habit of sketching underwater using an adapted board, pen and paper. She designed everything from book covers to carpets, and her mermaids, seaweeds and rockpool scenes are unforgettable once you have set eyes on them.

Why seahorses?

On the very same coast that Susan Williams-Ellis was painting, on the Menai Strait, our founders Alison and David Lea-Wilson opened the Anglesey Sea Zoo in 1983. Among the tanks were seahorses, notoriously fussy breeders that will only raise young in water that is crystal clean.

The seahorses bred. Alison and David knew there was something special about the waters around them so in 1997 they filled a saucepan with it and boiled it dry on the kitchen stove. The first Halen Môn Sea Salt was what was left. 

So when we saw Susan's seahorse illustrations, we knew they should be a part of our collaboration and couldn’t wait to see them dancing around one of our useful and beautiful refillable jars. 

The details

  • Edition Limited edition
  • Height 10.5 cm
  • Contains 100g Pure Sea Salt, PDO
  • Included A wooden spoon
  • The jar Refillable, clip-top ceramic
  • Illustrations Susan Williams-Ellis
  • Collaboration The Susan Williams-Ellis Foundation

About this edition

A limited edition made with the Susan Williams-Ellis Foundation.

The jar is made to be refilled. Once the salt is gone, keep it by the hob and top it up — the lid clips shut against the damp.

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