Bawdy Bisques and Naughty Novelties

This post continues my exploration of bisque belles by Schafer and Vater and their metallic mates.  This beguiling geisha is a bisque fl...

Following my August 14, 2013, posting , a friend sent me a link to an article on the BornRich website about one-of-a-kind custom Rolls ...

Ms. #442 has previously been pictured on this blog .  This lively and limber lady is by Schafer and Vater. Here is the same model,...

  This bobbed-hair bathing beauty is by Gebruder Heubach.  Of excellent china and beautifully modeled, this 5 inch long nude is incise...

This bawdy bottle features a bare bather surrounded by leering bald men.  Called a "nipper," because it was meant to hold a nip...

This fantastic fashion lady by Galluba and Hofmann is as big as she is beautiful.  A little later in the Edwardian period, she has sheer ...

Along with bathing beauties and naughty novelties, I also collect antique and vintage maneki nekos , the famed Japanese beckoning cat. ...

In addition to bathing beauty figurines, I also collect antique dolls.  Sometimes I find a little treasure that fits into both.  Inside a...

This bizarre vase is part of a series by Hertwig and Company of Germany.  This particular peculiar piece was entitled "Der Gutmutig...

Made to perch on a pretty pincushion or fluffy powder puff, Ms. #547 admires her gold bracelet, while we admire her.  Her amber eyes wit...

Madame, the flea that crept between your breasts I envied that there he should take his rest. The little creature's fortune was ...

A friend forwarded me an online article  announcing that interpretative dancer Maud Allan's original Salome costume, currently held by ...

Ms. #545 shows that good things come ON small packages.  This sultry sultana is by Schafer and Vater, and the same harem lady was also p...

Smiling sweetly from her shower, Ms. #542 must be washing off sand on the seaside, because she is a bathing suit with molded horizontal r...

Peeking out shyly from her curtained wicker beach chair, this little bathing belle was a recent find at a local estate sale.  Across the...

  As Ms. #541 demonstrates, a man's, and a bathing beauty's, home is his or her castle.  I suspect she was once an aquarium orn...

Ms. #538 is another bare-bottomed belle.  She is one of the fanciest flippers I have seen, from her fetching hat with its yellow plumes ...

Her chiton swirling around her,  Ms. #537 appears to be playing her tambourine with wild abandon.  Perhaps she is supposed to be a maena...

  Ms. #536 is a "modedamen mit gefäß" (fashion lady with container) according to the catalogue of Hertwig and Company of Germ...

I have added more pictures to my page on Hertwig's petite pets, thanks to a generous English collector!