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| Figure 6 Photocopy of a rabbit figure attributed to the Lewis Pottery. (Photos, courtesy of the authors unless otherwise noted.) A Louisville resident remembered seeing this small white pottery rabbit in the collection of the Filson Club. About 4" long, it was a size that potters would have called a “toy.” When the authors visited the collection, only an old 8" x 10" glossy remained in the file, inscribed on the back: “Photo of bunny made in the Lewis Pottery during the years of the pottery’s existence 1829–1836. Given by Miss Mary Lee Warren, Louisville, Ky Oct. 1948.” When the collection was revisited, the photo, too, had disappeared, leaving only this poor photocopy of the original to prove that the bunny ever existed. The rabbit appears to have been press molded, with incised details at mouth and eyes, and given an applied tail. Its ears were broken. While there were some examples of press-molding found in the dig, there was nothing quite like the rabbit. However, the Vodreys did later have a pet rabbit for the boys—“to teach them tenderness,” Jabez wrote. |
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