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| Imported hand painted papier mâché rabbits were quite popular between 1920 and 1930. Those with removable heads, like the one in my painting, were often filled with candy, particularly jelly beans. This bunny, that I still have, belonged to my mother, who saved it and eventually used it as a centerpiece for my childhood Easter baskets. Instead of filling the rabbit with jelly beans, she placed shredded green tissue paper in the basket bottom, centered the bunny, then scattered multicolored jellies and other candies all around to make the contents appear more abundant than it was in actuality. Smart mom! |