GERMAN CONTA & BOEHME ATTRIBUTED PORCELAIN FIGURAL HUMIDORS, LOT OF THREE, each having bright polychrome hand-painted decorations, comprising one example depicting a jester blowing a horn, sitting on a drum with a cat, one example featuring a sitting gentleman in robe, sleeping cap, and smoking a pipe, and one example depicting a standing bald gentleman with rosy jowls reading the "TIMES" newspaper. Marks include various hand-brushed and incised numerals. Conta and Boehme, Poessneck, Germany. Second half 19th century. 9 1/2" HOA. 
Literature: Parallels Horowitz - Figural Humidors, Mostly Victorian, jester p. 124, fig. 541, pipe smoker p. 128, fig. 559, and newspaper reader p. 128, fig. 560. 

Jester having some minute flakes to top back corner, professional restoration to one top corner of barrel base; newspaper reader having restoration to one spectacle, area of yellowing restoration to top underside edge/interior flange; pipe smoker having a hairline to back of base at rim, a minute flake to end of pipe stem, and some scattered glaze flakes.