Details
Arita ware, Imari style, porcelain with underglaze blue, and red, green, yellow and black overglaze enamel, and gilt
2¾ in. (6.9 cm.) high; 9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Yamanaka & Company, Bar Harbor, Maine, September 1933.
Mrs. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Seal Harbor, Maine, 1933-1948.
Estate of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (with a life interest to John D. Rockefeller, Jr.), 1948-1960.
Acquired December 1960.
Literature
R. Ellsworth and A. Christy, et. al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection, New York, Vol. III, 1993, pp. 185-186, no. 135 (illustrated, p. 185).
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