ROYAL DOULTON - Vintage Bunnysins Egg Cup - (1936)

This depicts Peter Rabbit with glasses on playing the trumpet - THIS INCREDIBLE AND RARE VINTAGE 1936 ROYAL DOULTON PORCELAIN "BUNNYKINS" EGG CUP MEASURES 4.5cm ACROSS x 4.2cm TALL. -  THE BUNNYKINS CHINAWARE LINE ORIGINATED WITH ARTWORK BY MARY BARBARA BAILEY, THE DAUGHTER OF CUTHBERT BAILEY; THE GENERAL MANAGER OF DOULTON DURING THE 1930's. UNBEKNOWNST TO THE PUBLIC, MARY BARBARA BAILEY WAS NOT A PROFESSIONAL ILLUSTRATOR, BUT A NUN IN THE AUGUSTINIAN CANONESSES OF THE LATERAN. INTRODUCED IN 1934, BUNNYKINS TABLEWARE DEPICTED MR. AND MRS. BUNNYKINS AND OTHER RABBITS DRESSED IN HUMAN CLOTHING, IN COLOURFUL RURAL AND SMALL-TOWN ENGLISH SCENES, TRANSFER-PRINTED ON WHITE CHINA. THE EGG CUP IS IN GREAT CONDITION WITH NO CHIPS OR CRACKS .

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