Bawdy Bisques and Naughty Novelties

This whimsical ink and watercolor illustration portrays two anthropomorphised pussycats in Edwardian bathing suits, a female feline serenel...

Although unmarked, this china charmer is a documented model from Dressel, Kister, and Company.     Of beautiful glowing pale porcelain, wit...

Over many years of collecting, I have added assorted other bathing-beauty themed items along with my china and bisque belles.  While stra...

This boxing belle may be related to the sultry sultana featured earlier on this blog.  Of high quality plaster, she shares the same slen...

A mere 1.75 inches high, including her base, this tiny china bathing beauty is surprisingly detailed and delicately decorated.  Her unusua...

. . . but in this case, this curious kitty is looking at something of a far more intimate nature.  No doubt another play on the double ente...

This lounging lady is of ivory and hales from China.  Such reclining nude carvings are called "doctor's dolls," based on cl...

With jacket blue and trousers white Just like a sailor neat and tight Sure the sea it was the heart's delight Of the female rambl...

This flirtatious flapper certainly has a lot of flash in her form-fitting gold glitter bathing suit.  Of plaster, this golden girl is 16 in...

Chryselephantine in ancient times meant a statue of wood, with a thin veneer of ivory representing skin and gold leaf picking out other d...

This beautiful bisque ballerina by Galluba and Hofmann is 7.25 inches high and 6 inches long.  A hole in the sole of her left foot fits ove...

Ending this year with a very different type of gal by Galluba and Hofmann.  This 4.5 inch tall little girl with her pet piglet is coated wi...

This fashionable fräulein clad in the epitome of Edwardian elegance takes her shaggy terrier for a stroll.  Her formfitting gown of emerald...

The lovely lady with her loving lambkin is a big and very unusual figural powder dish.  The little lamb is the dish and a fluffy powder puf...

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...