Bawdy Bisques and Naughty Novelties

In 1879, Italian artist Odoardo Tabbachi created "La Tuffolina" (the diver). According to a June 21, 1879, supplement to Scien...

This bathing beauty is actually the top of a very big powder box. Standing 10 inches tall, she is made of ceramic and decorated in a bold a...

This page from an old Hertwig and Company catalogue displays two delectable damsels clad only in teddies of sheer lace, trimmed with fine ri...

Looking both defiant and delectable in her roguishly open short robe, this gorgeous gamine is of excellent bisque. She is 5.5 inches tall a...

Actually there is no mystery who made this masked mademoiselle, because on the back of her base is the crowned intertwined "G" and...

A fellow collector alerted me to this image, appearing on the youtube video, Masculine Women, Feminine Men (it appears at 1.27). The rea...

This beautiful belle hides a secret under her hinged bustle. . . . . . which, when lifted, reveals a brown beetle crawling up her ba...

This bisque bathing belle has been appearing for years in antiques markets and online auctions. She is something of a lady of mystery. S...

In 1997, my parents spent the summer in Florence, Italy, where my father was teaching a summer law course. My mother found this exquisite p...

The German firm of Schafer and Vater is renown for its comic or naughty nippers in a wide variety of shapes and sizes.  These novelty bottl...

Marc and Shona Lorrin have just published Volume 7, the second to the last book of their series, The Half Doll . The book includes pictures...