Details
Kutani style, porcelain with green, yellow, aubergine, blue, brown and black enamel
4¾ in. (12.1 cm.) diam. each
Provenance
Yamanaka & Company, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1931
Mrs. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Seal Harbor, Maine, 1931-1948
Estate of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (with a life interest to John D. Rockefeller, Jr.), 1948-1960.
Acquired 1960.
Literature
R. Ellsworth and A. Christy, et. al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection, New York, Vol. III, 1993, p. 170, no. 113 (illustrated, p. 170).
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