Bunnykins Warming Plate
Factory:
Royal Doulton
Designer:
Bailey, Mary Barbara
Cream glazed earthenware, transfer-printed in polychrome with Bunnikins scenes: ‘Apple Picking’, ‘Row Boat’ and ‘Nipped by a Crab’. Mark: Doulton backstamp supported by three rabbits over “BUNNYKINS”/R REGD TRADE MARK’.
Cream earthenware, transfer-printed overglaze in polychrome. Circular with curved sides flaring out slightly towards the rim, with a bulge on the right side linked to an aperture with a cork stopper in a matching bulge in the top of the flat border encircling the deep bowl inside. The domed cover has a circular recess in the middle crossed by a horizontal handle. Its lower edge is unglazed.
The centre of the bowl is decorated with a Bunnikins scene of a group of six rabbits, ‘Apple Picking’, and there are fifteen rabbits scampering round the rim. The cover is decorated on the outside with three Bunnikins scenes: ‘Row Boat’, depicting Mr and Mrs Rabbit and three little rabbits in a boat; one fishing, one trailing a toy boat, and one on its mother’s knee; Nipped by a Crab’, a rabbit in a red jacket holding a shrimping net and having his paw bitten by a crab; and a rabbit in a red jacket riding a black and white hobby horse.
History note: Purchased at Newark Antiques Fair on 20 August 2002 for £70 by the donor
Given by Mrs Margaret Cook
Diameter: 22 cm
Height: 8.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2019-04-29) by Cook, Margaret H., Mrs
20th Century, second quarter#
Circa
1934
CE
-
1940
CE
Circa
1945
CE
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1952
CE
Stopper
composed of
Cork
Cork
Diameter 1.7 cm
Height 1.2 cm
clear
Glaze
cream
Earthenware
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label, now discoloured
Accession number: C.7 & A-2019
Primary reference Number: 227182
Entry form number: 1382
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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