nwt nos wedgwood beatrix potter 2001 vtg peter rabbit eng child bowl+its saucer

Description

the duo
i can find no issues. each retains its original product sticker.
according to i love beatrix potter stuff. it is so profoundly innocent, it takes you to a different plane. the duo is by wedgwood (more on them below). my favorite part is the shape of a the bowl base! slightly concave --perfect for real ife. they are new old stock: still unused and with their stickers from 2001. both depict peter in the act of fleeing from mr. mcgregor's garden. you can read more about peter rabbit and read the actual tale of peter rabbit below.
the bowl interior reads
peter rabbit ran striaght away to mr. mcgregor's garden.
first he ate some lettuce, then he ate some radishes.
mr. mcgregor saw peter! peter jumped up and ran away as fast as ever he could.
the bowl's saucer reads
mr. mcgregor saw peter! peter jumped up
and ran away as fast as ever he could.
dimensions (you can get a sense of scale in the second-to-last image)
bowl
rim diameter: 5 1/2".
the bowl is nice and deep and has a height of 2 1/4".
base outside rim diameter is 2 1/2".
at its most rotund, it has a circumference of 18".
bowl's saucer
interior rim diameter is 5 3/4".
exterior rim diameter is a little less than 6 1/3".
base rim diameter: 3 1/2".
marks
do note: the marks reflect the fact that the bowl was made in england, though the bowl coaster was made in china.
you can seee all the marks together in the last image.
bowl
product sticker
peter rabbit new look
bowl
14cm 6346 (mf)
made in united kingdom
38631
50246405642
0 32677 64519 2
base stamp
[peter-rabbit-specific wedgwood logo]
the world of peter rabbit
frederick warne
peter rabbit ™
© frederick warne & co. 2001
wedgwood ®
made in england
3
bowl's saucer/coaster
product sticker
plate 18cm met
peter rabbit new look
made in china
[illegible]0246405641
made in china
0 32677 64518 5
base stamp
[peter-rabbit-specific wedgwood logo]
the world of peter rabbit
frederick warne
peter rabbit ™
© frederick warne & co. 2001
wedgwood ®
made in england
about peter rabbit
(from: wikipedia)
peter rabbit is a fictional animal character in various children's stories by beatrix potter. he first appeared in the
tale of peter rabbit
in 1902, and subsequently in five more books between 1904 and 1912. spin-off merchandise includes dishes, wallpaper, and dolls. he appears as a character in several adaptations.
the rabbits in potter's stories are anthropomorphic and wear human clothes: peter wears a blue jacket with brass buttons and shoes. peter, his widowed mother, mrs. josephine rabbit, as well as his sisters, flopsy, mopsy, and cottontail live in a rabbit hole that has a human kitchen, human furniture, as well as a shop where josephine sells various items. peter's relatives are cousin benjamin bunny, his uncle stringy hare and benjamin's father, mr. bouncer bunny.
peter rabbit was named after a pet rabbit whom beatrix potter had as a child, and whom she called peter piper. the first peter rabbit story,
the tale of peter rabbit
, was created in 1893 initially as a letter to noel moore, the five-year-old son of potter's former governess, annie moore. the boy was ill, and potter wrote him a picture and story letter to help him pass the time and to cheer him up. the letter included sketches illustrating the narrative.
in june 1903, a trade edition of the tale was published by frederick warne & co, and by the end of the year, 28,000 copies were in print. over the years,
the tale of peter rabbit
has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, and as of 2008, the peter rabbit series has sold more than 151 million copies in 35 languages.
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the tale of peter rabbit
(from: americanliterature)
once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were— flopsy, mopsy, cotton-tail, and peter.
they lived with their mother in a sand-bank, underneath the root of a very big fir tree.
«»now, my dears», said old mrs. rabbit one morning, «you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into mr. mcgregor's garden: your father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by mrs. mcgregor». "now run along, and don't get into mischief. i am going out."
then old mrs. rabbit took a basket and her umbrella, to the baker's. she bought a loaf of brown bread and five currant buns.
fLopsy, mopsy, and cottontail, who were good little bunnies, went down the lane to gather blackberries;
peter rabbit gatebut peter, who was very naughty, ran straight away to mr. mcgregor's garden and squeezed under the gate!
first he ate some lettuces and some french beans; and then he ate some radishes;
and then, feeling rather sick, he went to look for some parsley.
but round the end of a cucumber frame, whom should he meet but mr. mcgregor!
mr. mcgregor was on his hands and knees planting out young cabbages, but he jumped up and ran after peter, waving a rake and calling out, «stop thief!»
peter was most dreadfully frightened; he rushed all over the garden, for he had forgotten the way back to the gate.
he lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
after losing them, he ran on four legs and went faster, so that i think he might have got away altogether if he had not unfortunately run into a gooseberry net, and got caught by the large buttons on his jacket. it was a blue jacket with brass buttons, quite new.
peter rabbit gooseberry nextpeter gave himself up for lost, and shed big tears; but his sobs were overheard by some friendly sparrows, who flew to him in great excitement, and implored him to exert himself.
mr. mcgregor came up with a sieve, which he intended to pop upon the top of peter; but peter wriggled out just in time, leaving his jacket behind him.
and rushed into the toolshed, and jumped into a can. it would have been a beautiful thing to hide in, if it had not had so much water in it.
mr. mcgregor was quite sure that peter was somewhere in the toolshed, perhaps hidden underneath a flower-pot. he began to turn them over carefully, looking under each.
presently peter sneezed— «kertyschoo!» mr. mcgregor was after him in no time,
and tried to put his foot upon peter, who jumped out of a window, upsetting three plants. the window was too small for mr. mcgregor, and he was tired of running after peter. he went back to his work.
peter sat down to rest; he was out of breath and trembling with fright, and he had not the least idea which way to go. also he was very damp with sitting in that can.
after a time he began to wander about, going lippity— lippity—not very fast, and looking all around.
he found a door in a wall; but it was locked, and there was no room for a fat little rabbit to squeeze underneath.
an old mouse was running in and out over the stone doorstep, carrying peas and beans to her family in the wood. peter asked her the way to the gate, but she had such a large pea in her mouth that she could not answer. she only shook her head at him. peter began to cry.
peter rabbit in wheelbarrowthen he tried to find his way straight across the garden, but he became more and more puzzled. presently, he came to a pond where mr. mcgregor filled his water-cans. a white cat was staring at some gold-fish; she sat very, very still, but now and then the tip of her tail twitched as if it were alive. peter thought it best to go away without speaking to her; he had heard about cats from his cousin, little benjamin bunny.
he went back towards the tool-shed, but suddenly, quite close to him, he heard the noise of a hoe—scr-r-ritch, scratch, scratch, scritch. peter scuttered underneath the bushes. but presently, as nothing happened, he came out, and climbed upon a wheelbarrow, and peeped over. the first thing he saw was mr. mcgregor hoeing onions. his back was turned towards peter, and beyond him was the gate!
peter got down very quietly off the wheelbarrow, and started running as fast as he could go, along a straight walk behind some black-currant bushes.
mr. mcgregor caught sight of him at the corner, but peter did not care. he slipped underneath the gate, and was safe at last in the wood outside the garden.
peter rabbit hung coat shoesmr. mcgregor hung up the little jacket and the shoes for a scare-crow to frighten the blackbirds.
peter never stopped running or looked behind him till he got home to the big fir-tree.
he was so tired that he flopped down upon the nice soft sand on the floor of the rabbit-hole, and shut his eyes. his mother was busy cooking; she wondered what he had done with his clothes. it was the second little jacket and pair of shoes that peter had lost in a fortnight!
i am sorry to say that peter was not very well during the evening.
his mother put him to bed, and made some camomile tea; and she gave a dose of it to peter!
«one table-spoonful to be taken at bed-time».
but flopsy, mopsy, and cotton-tail had bread and milk and blackberries, for supper.
the end
about etruria works/wedgwood
(from: wikipedia)
the etruria works was a ceramics factory opened by josiah wedgwood in 1769 in a district of stoke-on-trent, staffordshire, england, which he named etruria. the factory ran for 180 years.
wedgwood had previously based his business in the nearby town of burslem at the ivy house works and the brick house works (demolished—the wedgwood institute is built on its site). in 1767 wedgwood paid about three thousand pounds for his new site, which was then known as the ridgehouse estate. it lay directly in the path of the trent and mersey canal of which wedgwood was a promoter. on one side of the canal wedgwood built a large house, etruria hall and on the other side a factory.
there is a description of etruria in the 1930s in jb priestley's
english journey
. by this time the site was affected by mining subsidence, and plans were drawn for a new factory at barlaston some miles south on the trent and mersey canal. the new factory was built in 1938–40 and most of the old factory was demolished in the twentieth century after the wedgwood company moved production to barlaston.
maker's and/or other marks
do note: the marks reflect the fact that the bowl was made in england, though the bowl coaster was made in china.
you can seee all the marks together in the last image.
bowl
product sticker
peter rabbit new look
bowl
14cm 6346 (mf)
made in united kingdom
38631
50246405642
0 32677 64519 2
base stamp
[peter-rabbit-specific wedgwood logo]
the world of peter rabbit
frederick warne
peter rabbit ™
© frederick warne & co. 2001
wedgwood ®
made in england
3
bowl's saucer/coaster
product sticker
plate 18cm met
peter rabbit new look
made in china
[illegible]0246405641
made in china
0 32677 64518 5
base stamp
[peter-rabbit-specific wedgwood logo]
the world of peter rabbit
frederick warne
peter rabbit ™
© frederick warne & co. 2001
wedgwood ®
made in england
dimensions
(you can get a sense of scale in the second-to-last image)
bowl
rim diameter: 5 1/2".
the bowl is nice and deep and has a height of 2 1/4".
base outside rim diameter is 2 1/2".
at its most rotund, it has a circumference of 18".
bowl's saucer
interior rim diameter is 5 3/4".
exterior rim diameter is a little less than 6 1/3".
base rim diameter: 3 1/2".
condition
i can find no issues. each retains its original product sticker.
the fine print
the images serve as the majority of the listing description, so take a look at them closely.
shipping costs have really increased—this is calculated into the buy-it-now price.
i am not able to sell individual items from items i have listed as a group. i just don't have the stamina to create new listings for those. i apologize for that. i haven't initially individually listed items because i don't have enough listing slots to so.
trying to downsize some, though extremely melancholically.
shipping time: i otherwise work more than full time and my health isn't great, so kindly excuse the longer handling time. if i am able to ship sooner, i absolutely will do that
. i appreciate you taking the time to view my listing.