Bawdy Bisques and Naughty Novelties

This blog has previously pictured naughty novelties playing on the double entendre regarding the affectionate name for a kitty cat and a v...

  This woman of mystery came from Spain.  At first glance, she might appear to be a fashion lady by Galluba and Hofmann, but instead of b...

Previously this blog featured Miss Ondine , a mechanical "poupee nageuse" (swimming doll) patented in 1878 by Elie Martin.  Tha...

Recently on this blog I posted a charming china bathing beauty with her bisque sister, both by Galluba and Hofmann.  Here is one more exam...

I am one of the eight collectors featured in the April 2016 edition of "Austin Monthly." Note how I carefully arranged the photo...

This winsome miss in molded bathing togs is unmarked, but she is an unusual china bathing beauty by Galluba and Hofmann.  Although most of ...

My last posting featured a trio of pretty petite pincushion dolls by Galluba and Hoffman with unusual molded tresses.  They appear here aga...

Generally, to say someone is doing things by halves means that person does things incompletely or without enthusiasm.  However, when Gallub...

These china charmers have been pictured previously on this blog, but they represent yet another version of the beauteous belles of the b...

These belles of the ball, at 5.25 inches tall, are the littler sisters of the Galluba and Hofmann dancing damsels from my previous post .  ...

…I enjoy watching the girls dancing together, they waltz well . . . . I see only two graceful bodies united, sculpted beneath thin dresses b...

This beautiful belle in a bell-shaped skirt is a very unusual lamp by the German company of Galluba and Hofmann. Clearly more she was mean...

What does a bathing beauty wear during the winter?  Well, if she lives here in Austin, Texas, where the weather has been in the 80s, she is...

Although a sizable 5.5 inches tall, this lovely lass in deep reverie is clearly the little sister of the super-sized Galluba and Hofmann ha...

  This diminutive and demure damsel seems to have fallen on hard times.  Although she still flaunts her fur stole, her form-fitting silk ...

This standing siren by Galluba and Hofmann is 8.25 inches high and incised underneath "424P."   Her pose is very unusual, as Gall...

Although it is mid-October, here in central Texas it is still in the mid-90s.  Hoping to invoke cooler weather, here is a winsome miss sled...

At least that is what this long-necked lady appears to be saying as she raises high her goblet.  This brass medallion, just over 1.25 inche...

Wooing among the waves, this comic couple wear wide smiles (perhaps someone is about to snap their picture and told them to say cheese!).  T...

I  have written books on bathing beauties, but here is a bathing beauty on a book. She is part of the series of sea sirens by Sitzendorf P...