Rabbit mark on old bowl

This feels old to me. It looks old. It has a "27" on the base which may be a date, and it has this wonderful mark which I can only see as a rabbit with whiskers. It is rough stoneware clay with lots of impurities/inclusions but it runs through a gamut of colours from the light yellow to the black. Does it ring any bells with anyone?

The bowl looks old and the mark is wonderful, as you suggest, but more like a rabbit with flatulence to me.


Nothing to suggest that the bowl is not British other than the mark but...…. ?

I would love you to be right but I am very skeptical. She decorated: she decorated earthenware: she didn't throw, and the colours are at completely the opposite end of the spectrum. Her rabbits are much more realistic than mine as well, mine definitely having been scribed into the wet clay, seemingly sitting and farting (consensus) as opposed to gambolling.

I don't think the number is the date. Although the bowl is "old" if it is British then the stoneware body is not right for 1927. The rabbit is used as a symbol/mark in oriental pottery too but then the number doesn't fit. It is most confusing but I agree that there is nothing to suggest it is Jessie King.

How do you mean that the stoneware body is not right for 1927?

That brownish stoneware body is something that I have not seen used in pre-War British ceramics. Pre-war it tended to be more of the fawn colour you still see.