Bawdy Bisques and Naughty Novelties

Pony Boy, Pony Boy, won't you be my Tony Boy? Don't say no. Here we go off across the plains. Marry me, carry me right away with you...

This hoochie coochie cutie is a bit of a mystery. Just 4.5 inches tall, the sultry sultana, who represents a Middle Eastern belly dancer, ha...

Known aptly as "The Hugger," this erotic ivory miniature is one of the best known, and most controversial, works by Bruno Zach . H...

Beating time to bounding feet,  When, after daylight's golden set,  Maids and youths by moonlight meet. Maltese Air , Thomas Moore (1779...

This bronze bathing beauty is the last, but not least, of the trio of cast coquettes from the previous postings. She is clad in a bathing ou...

Another bronze bathing beauty, a bigger sister to the metal miss in the last posting. Reclining in a form-fitting tank swimsuit that clings ...

This lissome miss is cast in bronze. Although only 2.5 inches tall and high, she is superbly sculpted, from the waves in her thick tresses t...

Just 2.5 inches tall, this itty bitty bathing belle adjusts her bonnet to protect her fair complexion from the sun. Her bare feet and legs i...

This very elegant and lovely lady is by the German firm of Galluba and Hofmann, whose bevies of bathing belles populate this blog. But Gallu...

This lissome lass wears a big blue flower in her blond tresses, accessorizing the blue corset cinching her hour-glass waist. She is part of ...

This roguish redhead is already for the  masquerade  ball in her form-fitting Pierrette costume that not only shows off her shapely legs, bu...

This 5.5-inch tall bisque boy is all fitted out for the beach in his original striped knit bathing suit. His bathing cap is of a stiffened o...

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....