Vintage 1900 Fives-Lille Rainbow Trout Vide Poche Pantry Jan Brett's highly original version

Jan Brett's highly original version of the Gingerbread Boy story has quickly become a family classic

ready to be uncorked beneath the open sky

We rather like it for steaming bowls of rice

the scene captures the Victorian fascination with domestic life and anthropomorphic animal portraiture

Vintage 1900 Fives-Lille Rainbow Trout Vide Poche Pantry Jan Brett's highly original versionThis fish cachepot showcases the remarkable artistry of the renowned Fives Lille faience manufactory of northern France. Sculpted as a rainbow trout, its luminous majolica glaze gives the fish an almost lifelike presence, reflecting light with the iridescent sheen of scales just lifted from the water.