Kissing Couple

A farm boy and a farm girl, eyes closed, lips puckered, leaning in for a kiss: the kissing couple may well be the sweetest souvenir the Netherlands has to offer. Nobody knows exactly where it began, but the Delft blue pair now belongs to Holland as much as windmills and tulips do. At De Holland Winkel you will find it in more than a hundred versions, from a miniature figurine of three centimetres to statues of thirty, in classic Delft blue or gold and also as a boy-and-boy or girl-and-girl pair. The couple turns up as a salt and pepper set too, on fridge magnets, mugs and socks, beneath a windmill in a snow globe or on a tin of stroopwafels, and even on rompers and bibs for the very youngest. A gift with a wink for a wedding, engagement, anniversary or Valentine’s Day, or simply for someone you would like to send a kiss from Holland.