Hand-painted Porcelain Bowling Pin Dish with "A Record Breaker" Bowler fine wooden object with all of its braids

with all of its braids firmly in place

but this Russian looking hand puppet feels pretty timely--and his face rather reminds me of that of Donald Trump

So I would guess it was a woman who did these designs

” “Hell’s Habitants Considered as a Traveling Circus

circa 1930s-50s

Hand-painted Porcelain Bowling Pin Dish with "A Record Breaker" Bowler fine wooden object with all of its braidsA pretty fun and curious dish, and one that would certainly make a great gift for a champion bowler and maybe also for a fan of the Big Lebowski, as I think this cigar smoking character bears a fairly close resemblance to John Goodman! Perhaps it is actually Kegel (German 9 pin bowling) that he is playing, as the dish was made in Germany, but often one sees porcelain manufactured in one country and decorated in another, which I assume was the case