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The Kiss

Johann Joachim Kändler | Meissen Manufactory | Laurent Cars | François Boucher

ca. 1745

Medium

Hard-paste porcelain

Tags

Couples Men Women

Dimensions

Overall (confirmed): 8 × 10 1/8 × 6 in. (20.3 × 25.7 × 15.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964

Classification

Ceramics-Porcelain

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Culture

German, Meissen

Rights

Public Domain

About Johann Joachim Kändler

1710 |1706 –9999 |1775 • German|German

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