Bawdy Bisques and Naughty Novelties

I have finished uploading the original Hertwig and Company catalog . I may go back and scan some of the earlier pages that did not photograp...

This little bathing boy knows just how to keep his head above water. Of fine rosy bisque, beautifully modeled and decorated, ...

In a race against software updates and driver glitches, I have added more pages to the Hertwig catalog . I have also scanned and reposted a ...

More updates to the Hertwig catalog page. I had lost the ability to coordinate my old scanner with my somewhat less old laptop. Apparently ...

This week features another unusual piece of Japanese erotica, an obidome featuring a red coral carving of a nude woman framed by flowers, st...

This beautifully modeled and dressed doll is known as a sosaku-ningyo (creative or art doll). Beginning in the 1920s, some Japanese doll art...

Galluba and Hofmann is renown among collectors for its voluptuous bathing beauties and aristocratic fashion ladies, but the company also pro...

In addition to bathing beauty figurines, I also collect antique dolls, and this bright-eyed beach babe is a terrific tiny "two-fer....

Recently I posted these pages from an original Hertwig and Company catalog . The pages are from the section of the catalog dealing with eart...

 to the Hertwig catalog . 

 . . . with more updates to the Hertwig catalog . I have been doing some traveling, as well as being involved in some other projects, but I ...

This languorous lass appears to be working on her tan, but she is already a beautiful golden bronze. Just 5 inches long, this sensual sculpt...

As they roll upon the shore What are the wild waves saying? As they roll in more and more They seem to say "I adore you And I want your...

This shapely sow spreads her swirling skirt, forming a small shallow dish for holding pins or trinkets. Her sly smile suggests that she has ...

At first glance these pretty pin dishes seem nearly identical. Each is of excellent sharp bisque and portrays a beautiful bathing belle in a...

As a collector, there is always that one piece you feel you really must have to fill a gap in your collection. Those who have followed this ...

 Slowly but surely the work on the Hertwig catalog continues with more pages posted.

 More pages from the Hertwig and Company catalog have been posted.

 Four more pages have been added .

For those of you wondering what happened to the posting of the Hertwig and Company catalog, I was not happy with the way the photographs of ...