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    "localId": "129358",
    "label": "Figural Group:  Musicians",
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    "id": "129358",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Figural Group:  Musicians",
    "description": "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.",
    "date": "c. 1737",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.2",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.2/1952.2_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 20 x 29.2 x 16.7 cm (7 7/8 x 11 1/2 x 6 9/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Germany, 18th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1952.2"
}

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    "tec": "porcelain",
    "tombstone": "Figural Group:  Musicians, c. 1737. Meissen Porcelain Factory (German, est. c. 1710), Johann Joachim Kändler (German, 1706–1768). Porcelain; overall: 20 x 29.2 x 16.7 cm (7 7/8 x 11 1/2 x 6 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., 1952.2",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Foote, Helen. \"Vincennes and Meissen Porcelain.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>39, no. 6 (June 1952): 124-126.<em><br></em>",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 125; Reproduced: p. 127",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141801"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.2",
    "creditline": "Gift of Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc.",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:40:24.085000",
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    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
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    "med": "porcelain",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male",
        "gender unknown"
    ],
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    "image_url": null
}

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