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Couple Drinking Chocolate

Manufactory Meissen Manufactory German
ca. 1744
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 538
The popularity of tea, coffee, and hot chocolate in eighteenth-century Europe is reflected in the prominence with which these beverages are depicted in porcelain figural groups. On this example, a couple drinks hot chocolate, as indicated by the chocolate pot—recognizable by the small hole in the lid—on the table. It is similar to a full-scale Meissen chocolate pot in the Museum's collection (see 42.205.136a, b). They drink from tall handleless beakers, a form of cup used for chocolate and coffee.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Couple Drinking Chocolate
  • Modeler: Johann Joachim Kändler (German, Fischbach 1706–1775 Meissen)
  • Manufactory: Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present)
  • Date: ca. 1744
  • Culture: German, Meissen
  • Medium: Hard-paste porcelain
  • Dimensions: Height: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
  • Credit Line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982
  • Object Number: 1982.60.326
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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