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"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\u2014a typical symbolic gesture rendered in such figural ceramic sculptures.",
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"citation": "Foote, Helen. \"Vincennes and Meissen Porcelain.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 39, no. 6 (June 1952): 124-126.
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