Cleveland Museum of Art
Figural Group: Musicians
Meissen Porcelain Factory
- Date
- c. 1737
- Medium
- porcelain
- Culture
- Germany, 18th century
- Department
- Decorative Art and Design
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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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