Arita ware, Imari style, porcelain with blue and red overglaze enamel, and gilt

2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) wide; 3 in. (7.6 cm.) long

Gift of Miss Lucy Truman Aldrich, December 1949

R. Ellsworth and A. Christy, et. al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection, New York, Vol. III, 1993, pp. 190-191, no. 144 (illustrated, p. 190).

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