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  • May include: A cream-colored ceramic bowl featuring a repeating border of brown rabbits around the rim. The center of the bowl displays a colorful illustration of anthropomorphic rabbits near a red pillar box, with flowers and a bird overhead.
  • May include: A cream-colored ceramic bowl featuring a colorful illustration of anthropomorphic rabbits in a garden setting. The scene depicts rabbits near a red pillar box, a bird carrying a figure, and floral accents along the bowl's rim.
  • May include: A cream-colored ceramic bowl featuring a repeating pattern of brown rabbits along the inner rim. The center of the bowl displays a colorful illustration of rabbits, flowers, and a red telephone booth under a blue sky.
  • May include: A white ceramic bowl featuring a repeating pattern of brown rabbits running across a thin green grassy line along the interior rim. The bowl has a smooth, rounded shape with a slightly flared edge and a clean, minimalist white finish.
  • May include: A cream-colored ceramic bowl featuring a repeating pattern of brown rabbits along the inner rim and a central illustration of rabbits near a red telephone box. A wooden ruler shows the bowl has a diameter of approximately 6 inches.
  • May include: A white ceramic saucer featuring a central stamp with a crown, a group of rabbits, and the text English Fine Bone China Bunnykins Regd. Trade Mark. The underside of the saucer is smooth and circular with a raised foot rim.
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Vintage Royal Doulton Bunnykins Bowl – Letterbox Postbox Pattern, Walter Hayward, Running Rabbits Border, Bone China England, 1970s–1980s

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Bone china

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From the 1970s

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A family of rabbits posts a letter at a red pillar box while a bird postman flies overhead with the mail — the "Letterbox" design, drawn by Walter Hayward in 1952 — with a ring of the little running rabbits that border every piece of Bunnykins around the rim. This is Royal Doulton Bunnykins, in English fine bone china.

Bunnykins has an unlikely origin. The rabbits were created in 1934 by Barbara Vernon — Sister Mary Barbara, a nun, and the daughter of Royal Doulton's general manager — who sent her drawings of dressed-up bunnies home from the convent. Royal Doulton put them into production in 1937, and they have never really stopped.

A note on dating, since it trips people up: the ©1936 that appears with the Bunnykins mark is the series' original copyright, not the date of the piece. This one, with its coloured three-rabbit mark and English Fine Bone China, belongs to the 1970s–80s.

A child's bowl, about six inches. For a Bunnykins collector, a new-baby or christening gift, or a rabbit-loving breakfast shelf. (This shop also has a Wedgwood Peter Rabbit egg cup, if you like your storybook rabbits — the two are different dynasties: Bunnykins is Royal Doulton's own, Peter Rabbit is Beatrix Potter's.)

• Type: Child's bowl
• Maker: Royal Doulton, England
• Series: Bunnykins (created 1934 by Barbara Vernon)
• Pattern: "Letterbox" — rabbits at a pillar box, bird postman, running-rabbit border (drawn by Walter Hayward, 1952)
• Era: c. 1970s–1980s (coloured bone-china mark; ©1936 is the series copyright, not the date)
• Size: ~6" / 15 cm diameter (measured)
• Material: English fine bone china
• Markings: Coloured three-rabbit Royal Doulton Bunnykins mark, English Fine Bone China · Regd. Trade Mark

Condition
Excellent condition — the transfer bright, the bone-china glaze clean, the running-rabbit border complete, with no chips, cracks, or repairs. Please review all photos as part of the condition record.

Ships carefully packed from Canada. Combined shipping available. Orders to the United States ship duty-paid — all import duties are prepaid, so US buyers pay no extra fees on delivery.
Questions welcome — happy to provide additional photos of the mark or any area under direct light.

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