A pair of busts - a man and a woman

Ceramics (terracotta?) ceramic glazes matte and lead stained with manganese, gilding;
Dimensions: female, height 30 cm, base diameter 10 cm; male, height 32 cm, base diameter 10 cm;
busts signed with monogram BB (engraved?), 6-part rosette (imprint) and engraved model numbers : 4067 (female) and 4068 (male);
Bernard Bloch, Majolica- und Terrakottafabrik Fabrik, Hohenstein /Uncin (Austria-Hungary/Czech Republic) ?, 20th c.
Busts of a woman and a man in orientalist costumes, on 8-sided pedestals. Woman wearing a shawl in a pattern of pressed rosettes, thrown over her head and loosely draped over her breasts; gold sequins are hooked at the shawl above her forehead. Bearded man wearing a cylindrical, ring-shaped headdress superimposed over a shawl and a fringed shawl loosely draped over his shoulders.