Description
Is there a gardener alive who has not lost a lettuce or two to a visitor with long ears? In a stone-walled potager outside Tours, Madame Rousseau set her watering can down between the rows one June morning and turned to fetch the twine. When she looked back, a small brown face was peering around the spout, nose twitching, entirely unrepentant. She sighed, laughed, and sowed an extra row of greens that afternoon.
That moment of mischief is the whole charm of this piece. The rabbit tucks himself behind the can as if he thinks no one can see him, and the effect is gentle and funny at once. It belongs on a windowsill above the potting bench, on a kitchen shelf beside the seed packets, or in the hands of the friend whose garden is her pride and whose rabbits are her running joke. Its soft garden colours sit as happily among terracotta pots as they do on a bedroom bookshelf, and the expression on that small face never fails to raise a grin.
The details
- A rabbit peeking out from behind a watering can
- Opens to keep a few seeds, a ring or other tiny treasures
- Roughly 2.75 x 1.5 x 2.75 inches
- Made by Rochard
- Hand-decorated Limoges porcelain from France
Wrap it with a packet of heirloom carrot seeds and a card that says the rabbit is welcome, within reason.
