Darling Treacle Glazed Victorian Rabbit Staffordshire Money Bank

These boxes or banks would have been produced relatively cheaply as the only easy access to the money saved within was to smash the box to smithereens, but this box must of meant more to its owner than that money held within (or they managed to fish the money out with a knife and a lot of patience). And I completely get why the owner of this money bank would not want to destroy it. It is I think most likely made by one of the Staffordshire Potteries in the middle of the Victorian era circa 1870 and is in the form of a recumbent rabbit. The rabbit sits of an oval base of what looks like pressed flowers, he holds in his paws what looks like a nut and is covered in this beautiful treacle coloured glaze. The Slot for the dropping of the coins is quite large and is simply cut into the top of his back.