Bawdy Bisques and Naughty Novelties

Naughty, bawdy, blonde, and voluptuous, the Five Barrison Sisters tantalized and shocked audiences in the 1890s with a vaudeville act spe...

New nekos on My Maneki Neko Page .

New postings on my Hertwig Extraordinary Anthropomorphic Animals  and My Maneki Neko Page !

My last post featured a flapper bathing belle by Hertwig and Company of Germany, accompanied by her photograph in that company's cat...

This fashionable flapper poses confidently in the finest beachwear of the late 1920s.  Of excellent china and beautifully modeled and d...

This pottery pussycat from Japans' Shiga kilns has joined my chowder of lucky cats.

This embossed postcard sent February 15, 1912, features a rather wistful bathing belle gazing at heart-shaped clouds while Cupid loiters ...

Girl with the burning golden eyes,  And red-bird song, and snowy throat:  I bring you gold and silver moons,  And diamond stars, an...

Come feed the little birds, show them you care And you'll be glad if you do Their young ones are hungry Their nests are so bare ...

These two scent-sational perfume atomizers each feature a beautiful belle embracing an oversized perfume bottle. This nude nymph ...

The day after Christmas is celebrated in the United Kingdom as Boxing Day.  It doesn't involve fisticuffs, but traditionally was a day ...

I have updated my Maneki Neko page with a video of a rare banko ware nodding neko, showing him sagely shaking his head.

In this season of gift wrap and ribbon, this beautiful belle adorned a big blue bow is most timely.  By Galluba and Hofmann, she is an unus...

Send your camel to bed Shadows painting our faces Traces of romance in our heads Heaven's holding a half-moon Shining just for ...

. . . .who is the fairest in the land?"  As posted previously on this blog, there was a fad for artistic smoking paraphernalia in the ...

According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, "dish" can refer to "a more or less concave vessel from which food is served...