This type of porcelain female figure was a popular collectible exported from Japan to Europe in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It is in the Kakiemon style, in which vivid, overglaze enamels are applied to a milky white porcelain surface. The figure’s outfit consists of several layers of kosode (predecessor of the kimono), a thin obi, and a richly decorated uchikake (over robe).
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色絵婦人立像
Title:Figure of a Standing Beauty
Period:Edo period (1615–1868)
Date:ca. 1670–90
Culture:Japan
Medium:Porcelain with overglaze polychrome enamels (Arita ware, Kakiemon type)
Dimensions:H. 15 5/8 in. (39.7 cm); W. 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm); D. 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm)
Classification:Ceramics
Credit Line:The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975
Object Number:1975.268.528
[ Harry G. C. Packard American, Tokyo, until 1975; donated and sold to MMA].
Mitsukoshi Ltd. (Tokyo). "Exhibition of Koimari," March 14, 1978–March 19, 1978.
Mitsukoshi Ltd. (Osaka). "Exhibition of Koimari," April 4, 1978–April 9, 1978.
Nagoya. Oriental Nakamura. "Exhibition of Koimari," April 14, 1978–April 19, 1978.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "A Sensitivity to the Seasons: Autumn and Winter," June 22–September 10, 2006.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Flowing Streams: Scenes from Japanese Arts and Life," December 21, 2006–June 3, 2007.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "No Ordinary Mortals: The Human Figure in Japanese Art," 2007–2008.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Ukiyo-e Artists' Responses to Romantic Legends of Two Brothers: Narihira and Yukihira," March 27–June 8, 2008.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection," December 17, 2009–June 10, 2010.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Flowering of Edo Period Painting: Japanese Masterworks from the Feinberg Collection," February 1–September 7, 2014.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection," June 4, 2022–February 20, 2023.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie," March 25, 2025-August 17, 2025.
Harry G. C. Packard. "Nihon Bijutsu no Moten (Neglected aspects of Japanese art)." Geijutsu Shincho, March 1966. pp. 1–26 (p. 9).
Valenstein, Suzanne G., Julia Meech, and Marilyn Jenkins. Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections. vol. 12, limited ed. ed., Tokyo: Kōdansha International Ltd., 1977, fig. 201.
Meech, Julia -Pekarik, Suzanne G. Valenstein, and Marilyn Jenkins-Madina. Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. vol. 11, Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1982, (B&W) pl. 201.
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