Fun vintage ceramic or bisque porcelain (this is somewhat translucent) bell Christmas Tree ornament out of a home. This is shaped as a lady bear, dressed as a maid or server with a frilly lace edged apron over her red dress. She is carrying a plate of something in her hands that looks like it has a red cherry on top from the red dot you can see.

On the inside of the lower bell portion is a partially stamped mark in black (it appears only partially visible as originally made). On this you can clearly read most of the letters of the manufacturer name, Jasco, and some of the letters of the country of origin, Japan, but from some internet research, this is the right manufacturer and country. We believe this vintage Christmas ornament dates Mid Century, from the 1950s/60s based on style and Japan origin.

This bell measures about 2 3/4 inches tall x 1 15/16 inches in width/depth (the width to the bell portion). This can be used standing on a shelf as it stands fine (as seen in the images) or hanging on a tree on the still attached original gold colored string cord.

However, as shown in the images, the outside gold colored covering to this hanging string is worn away/missing for about half of the hanging loop as seen above the bear. This loop cord goes through the top of the bear's head to attach to the ceramic ball bell knocker inside the bell (and the bell rings fine). As we've shown in the images, the cord can be fully pulled through the bell in both directions such that the knocker can be pulled outside the bell by the cord and then pulled back inside the bell when the ornament is hung on the tree. You can see along the inner portion of the bell cord that the cord has been knotted in two places, so it is all still fully attached and works fine, but likely the cord was broken at some time in the past. If you wished, you could replace this cord, still using the original knocker, but we are selling this as is/as found.

The remainder of this vintage bisque bell is in great shape. There are no chips, cracks, crazing to the porcelain, with no major evidence of wear. The lace for the apron is not ripped/torn and appears attached as made. You will see in person that this ornament was made with the lace only glued down on one side of the apron, rather than glued down throughout, with just a spot of glue to hold the top of the opposite side in place. Not sure why it was made this way but there is no glue residue on the ceramic (as if one side had come loose) and you won't notice that this isn't fully glued down throughout unless you lift up the lace on the unglued side. Please review all images closely using the zoom feature.

We are/have listed a number of other Christmas ornaments for sale. If you are interested in more than one please contact us through the question button prior to inputting the order. The system won't automatically provide the cost savings for shipping more than one ornament in the same box but we would be pleased to calculate that for you.