Bawdy Bisques and Naughty Novelties

This elegant Edwardian is all original, from the top of her jaunty chapeau to the bottom of her velvet-covered box base (except for the ant...

This nubile nude leaning against a big bright beach ball is unmarked, but has the amber painted eyes with sultry gray shadowing typical of ...

Earlier in this blog I posted about a mujer de misterio , a señorita from Spain who at first glance appeared to be a fashion figure from ...

This bathing belle appears ready to flee the fly that has alighted on her thigh.  Of excellent china, the fly-shy flapper is 2.5 inches hig...

As noted before on this blog, I collect antique dolls as well as bathing beauty figurines.  It is always a special serendipity when my tw...

I'm gonna buy a Paper Doll that I can call my own A doll that other fellows cannot steal And then the flirty, flirty guys with thei...

In Austin, we are now into the dog days of summer, those long days of simmering searing heat. The term comes from the early Greeks, who no...

  He's a cold-hearted snake  Look into his eyes  Oh oh oh  He's been tellin' lies  He's a lover boy at play  He...

In olden days, a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking. But now, God knows, Anything goes.                 ...

My page  for the Austin Doll Collectors Society's upcoming October 14, 2017, doll show has been updated (including the show's new l...

but with nothing in-between, this long-legged lass is from the German firm of Fasold and Stauch.  Of excellent china and 9 inches tall, s...

She was a phantom of delight  When first she gleam’d upon my sight;  A lovely apparition, sent  To be a moment’s ornament;  Her e...

This seductive sultana is of chalkware or plaster.  During the early 1900s, there was a fad for pretty plaster ladies, often dressed in r...

Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today To-morrow will be dying. Robert Herrick (1591-1674) I too...

Baubles, bangles, Hear how they jing, jing-a-ling-a, Baubles, bangles, Bright, shiny beads. Sparkles, spangles, My heart will sin...

This exotic dancer poses prettily on a oriental rug in the center of a onyx ashtray.  However, this nuatch dancer has a naughty secret. ....

As in the real world, true red-headed bathing beauties are uncommon, especially when they are as stunning as this copper-tressed cutie.  Of...

For a collector, just when you think you have seen everything, something completely new pops up! At first glance, this big (14.5 inches t...