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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lizjewel, post: 4283219, member: 13874&quot;]Comes to mind: Middle-class housewives especially took classes in painting ceramics in the 1950s in Sweden. The mother of a schoolmate of mine did this. I saw examples of her painted ceramic figurines for a creche drying in their kitchen once. The colors were all <i>wrong</i> I noticed although I was only 9 years old at the time. My schoolmate explained that the ceramics were not <i>fired</i> yet and the colors would be different, natural when that was done. I can&#039;t tell if that lady had done a good job of coloring or not because I never saw the figurines after they were fired.</p><p><br /></p><p>The clowns here remind me of that popular&nbsp; hobby among those who had the discretionary means and time. I believe it was popular in other countries too, for quite some years. As late as the late 1970s there was a ceramics kiln in my suburban U.S. neighborhood where the owners conducted classes in painting ceramics.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps these clowns were examples from someone&#039;s hobby painting ceramics? If so, it&#039;d be moot to try to find either origin or market worth. As they seem to have colors applied in rather clumsy strokes in the faces, makes me think that the hobby painter was not very skilled. My 1.5 cents.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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