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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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Document identity
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129358
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Figural Group: Musicians
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object
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1
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129358
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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
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60761397
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11685
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Ceramic
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 20 x 29.2 x 16.7 cm (7 7/8 x 11 1/2 x 6 9/16 in.)
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Germany, 18th century
accession
1952.2
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porcelain
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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
creditline
Gift of Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc.
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2026-05-29 06:40:24.085000
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129358
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Decorative Art and Design
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Decorative Arts
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porcelain
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male
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