Bawdy Bisques and Naughty Novelties

This flirtatious and flamboyant flapper is from chalkware and was probably originally a carnival prize. Unmarked, she is 6.5 inches tall. At...

 . . . hit the beach. This glamorous gilt is another example of a  pink pig  fairing, popular from the late 1800s through the turn of the l...

On November 3, 2023, my article tracing the makers of certain mermaid and related aquarium adornments appeared on the online Museum of Aqu...

This laughing lass has her net at ready, perhaps hoping to bag herself some handsome beach beau. She is actually made to perch on the edge o...

This bathing beauty lamp has appeared previously on this blog. A similar lamp had once been offered as a prize on a punch board, a picture ...

On May 4, 2023,  my  article  about fishing figures, the little aquarium novelties that perched on the edge of a fishtanks, tiny fishing pol...

Anyone who has followed this blog knows that I need a man, most specifically a beach beau by Galluba and Hofmann , but considering how rare ...

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...