IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 227182 accession number: C.7 & A-2019 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 28 May 2019 updated: Tuesday 15 October 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: 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’. title: warming plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased at Newark Antiques Fair on 20 August 2002 for £70 by the donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs Margaret Cook STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/227182 SUBJECTS ------------------- rabbit rabbit CATEGORIES ------ category: glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1934 - 1940 creation date earliest: 1934 creation date latest: 1940 culture: 20th Century, second quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Royal Doulton maker: Bailey, Mary Barbara DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 22 dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.2 CITATIONS -------- Keeping it Hot. The Story of a Collection of Hot Water Warming Plates ---