Bawdy Bisques and Naughty Novelties

The maker of this lovely lady is so far unknown. Similar luscious lasses have appeared on this blog, and while they share a family resembla...

I recently acquired yet another creation by the Zaiden Toy Company . At 13 inches tall, she wears her colorful, if rather revealing, exotic ...

Purple is my favorite color, but very few bathing beauties come garbed in this royal hue. So I was pleased to find this powder box featuring...

This little scamp is "The Vamp" . . .  . . . according to the label on the bottom of her base. The label further declares that she...

This large and lovely languorous lass harks back to a time when voluptuous curves were in vogue, and not filled with silicone or saline solu...

. . . which is certainly what any man might be if he gazed into smoky golden eyes such as these. This sultry siren is a half doll attributed...

This large and lovely bathing beauty is an unusual example from the German firm of William Goebel. Her excellent china was made with precolo...

I have an article on the online Museum of Aquarium and Pet History discussing the lovely loreleis and whimsical water creatures created by ...

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...