Bawdy Bisques and Naughty Novelties

This 1951 Christmas card opens to reveal not your typical holiday theme of snowmen and decorated evergreens. . .  . . . but a scene of a bea...

Any collector would be a winner with this shell-decorated box topped by two nubile bisque nudes. Although it has become common to refer to a...

A new post on my maneki-neko page  features this rare nodding banko ware cat and discusses why this cute kitty may represent a malevolent su...

 I had put off posting because I was traveling with a friend to the United Federation of Doll Club's (UFDC) annual convention in Baltimo...

Won't you come and splash me, splash me, In the ocean blue? This is not the place to mash me, mash me, But we oughtter get into the wate...

Come lie with me and be my love Love lie with me Lie down with me Under the cypress tree In the sweet grasses Where the wind lieth Where the...

Oh! the lady in red, the fellows are crazy  For the lady in red She's a bit gaudy, but laudy  What a personality. 1935, lyrics by Mort D...

Certainly any collector would want to bring on any dancer as delicate and delightful as this lovely lass.  Of excellent porcelain and beauti...

These colorful beach belles in their vivid bathing suits are part of an album printed by William S. Kimball and Company, who, in the 1880s, ...

Her This swan-diving sea siren is a vintage brass and enamel pin. It closes with an early version of t...

                                                        In olden days, a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking But now, G...

An earlier post on this blog featured flapper bathing belles inspired by the works of illustrator Anne Harriet Fish , which included a Willa...

Certainly any lady this lovely deserves to be on a pedestal. This bisque belle by the German firm of Galluba and Hofmann comes attached to h...

 New post on my Maneki Neko page featuring this unusual Japanese souvenir spoon.

This marvelous mermaid must be part goldfish, as her lower body is clad in deep orange scales. Of excellent bisque, this sinuous sea siren i...

 . . . which is certainly what any collector would be by this delicate dancer in the remains of her original net costume. She is part of a  ...

After a detour via bronze, this post returns to the theme of bawdy bisque. This lissome lady appears to have forgotten her gavel, among othe...