I've added another lovely antique bisque sculpture to my collection, this time a bathing blonde beauty in the buff, lounging back on a rather heavy, marble base. Likely from 1940's Japan, though clearly modeled after the popular bathing beauties produced in Germany some decades earlier, her warm face and cute, shapely figure contrast nicely against that cold slab of gold vein and green. The lack of detail in her feet / toes and breasts / nipples seems to run consistent with whoever made these, via the few other examples that I've found online. Still, a very nice piece.
What a nice little nudie cutie, a nudist from decades past. Just the thing to keep old copies of Playboy from falling off the desk and onto the floor.
ReplyDeleteI like that "wistful" look, that's a good sculpt on the face. A slight movement on those legs and it'd make a good bookend!
ReplyDeleteShe sure has some rosy cheeks.
ReplyDeleteI love it. It's a cute figure from every angle, with just enough detail to convince, like a cartoon. The marble base really evokes a bar of soap, doesn't it? What else makes her a bathing beauty? It looks just as much like she's kicked back on the lid of a stone sarcophagus, a sleek forties Return of the Living Dead dancer. She just needs the leg warmers.