Colours and Coat Patterns

Emmel Tonkinese

(Chocolate mink, Lilac solid and Seal colourpoint)

Tonkinese come in the four basic colours of Seal (Brown, Natural), Chocolate (Champagne), Blue and Lilac (Platinum). Because the first generation Tonkinese were a cross between the Siamese and the Burmese, when we mateMink to Mink we not only get the incomplete dominance of their coat genes to create the Mink pattern, but we can also get the Colourpoint (Siamese coat pattern) and the Solid (Burmese coate pattern).

The eye colour for each coat pattern is different as well. Colourpoints will have a blue eye colour, Minks will have the distinctive aqua-marine colour and Solids will have a yellowy-green colour

	Colourpoint	Mink	Solid
Seal
Seal
	Dark brown points	Dark brown points	Dark brown points
	Light cream body, darkening with age.	Coffee brown body colouring	Dark brown body colouring
	Blue eye colour	Aqua-marine eye colour	Yellow-green eye colour

Blue
Blue
	Blue grey points	Blue grey points	Blue grey points
	Light cream body, darkening with age.	Light grey/blue body colouring	Dark grey/blue body colouring
	Blue eye colour	Aqua-marine eye colour	Yellow-green eye colour

Chocolate
Chocolate
	Ruddy brown points	Ruddy brown points	Ruddy brown points
	Light cream body, darkening with age.	Light caramel body colouring	Darker caramel body colouring
	Blue eye colour	Aqua-marine eye colour	Yellow-green eye colour

Lilac
Lilac
	Mushroom-pink points	Mushroom-pink points	Mushroom-pink points
	Light cream body	Light cream body with a slight blue hue	Slightly darker blue/grey tone.
	Blue eye colour	Aqua-marine eye colour	Yellow-green eye colour

The kittens depicted were all bred here at Emmel Tonkinese.

Below are pics of different colours with the 3 coat patterns. Important to note is that the colour darkens as the cat gets older, and can take 18 months - 2 years to develop fully.

Seal - Colourpoint, Solid and Mink

Lilac - Colourpoint, Solid and Mink

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