Sylvac bunny collectables

Find out why we can’t stop rabbiting on about SylvaC’s cute and collectable pottery bunnies

Published: September 10, 2009 at 1:30 pm

Green rabbits, blue rabbits, fawn rabbits, pink rabbits – over a period of nearly 50 years from the mid 1930s, SylvaC potteries, founded in Stoke-on-Trent in 1894 by William Shaw and William Copestake, turned out rabbit figurines at a rate to rival their natural breeding habits.

Collectors prefer the pre-1970s designs, finished with a matt glaze, over the glossy later output, and the green bunnies are most commonly seen. They come in all shapes and sizes, from snub-nosed bunnies and lop-eared rabbits to Harry the Hare; and from the tiniest fancies (just 5cm high) to 25cm-high colossal cottontails. But be warned – you won’t be able to stop at just one

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