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Standing Figure of a Beauty
The collection record classifies this work as ceramic. It is dated c. 1690. Recorded culture or place: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868).
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- Museum title
- Standing Figure of a Beauty
- Date
- c. 1690
- Culture / origin
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Materials and technique
- Porcelain with overglaze color enamels (Hizen ware, Kakiemon type)
- Dimensions
- Overall: 38 cm (14 15/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1964.366
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Dressed in layered robes and a jacketlike garment called an uchikake with a lively floral design, figures such as this one may have derived from dolls formed in the likeness of courtesans. It was produced in Hizen Province (in present-day Saga Prefecture on the island of Kyushu) by the Sakaida family of ceramists, the head of which has gone by the first name Kakiemon for many generations. As a result, the studio’s historical works are known as Kakiemon ware. The studio is distinguished for being among the earliest in Japan to use multicolor overglaze enamel and for the milky white of its porcelain.
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