So here is what I think

I have seen similar figures in the Cairo Museum in Egypt

Are these figures very old?

Are these figures from the Orient?

Maybe I don't need to know

But now that I have so many blogging friends who are experts in antiques....

Maybe you, my dear friends, have an answer.  I purchased these figures  from an elderly couple who came into a consignment shop in Santa Barbara
http://ginaceramics.blogspot.com/2009/12/do-you-recognize-these.html 

 

Those who have seen these figures admire them but no one knows anything about them.

DO YOU?

Gina