Figural Group: Musicians
Meissen Porcelain Factory · c. 1737 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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An elegantly dressed couple accompany one another in a duet while seated on a tall-backed settee in this German porcelain figurine. The woman is likely playing a lute, an early form of the guitar, while the gentleman joins in with a wooden flute. Their music-making reflects their courtship and intimacy—a typical symbolic gesture rendered in such figural ceramic sculptures.
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- Maker
- Meissen Porcelain Factory (German, est. c. 1710), Johann Joachim Kändler (German, 1706–1768)
- Date
- c. 1737
- Medium
- porcelain
- Dimensions
- Overall: 20 x 29.2 x 16.7 cm (7 7/8 x 11 1/2 x 6 9/16 in.)
- Place of origin
- Germany
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · On view · 216A French and German
- Credit line
- Gift of Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc.
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0
