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MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)
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A JAPANESE FIGURE OF A BIRD OF PREY PERCHED ON A STUMP
MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)
Hirado ware, porcelain with underglaze blue and brown and black overglaze enamels
8 ¾ in. (22.3 cm.) high.
MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)
Hirado ware, porcelain with underglaze blue and brown and black overglaze enamels
8 ¾ in. (22.3 cm.) high.
Provenance
Miss Lucy Truman Aldrich, Providence, Rhode Island.
Estate of Lucy Truman Aldrich, 1955.
Winthrop Rockefeller, Petit Jean Mountain, Arkansas, 1955-1974.
Estate of Winthrop Rockefeller, 1973-1974.
Acquired August 1974.
Estate of Lucy Truman Aldrich, 1955.
Winthrop Rockefeller, Petit Jean Mountain, Arkansas, 1955-1974.
Estate of Winthrop Rockefeller, 1973-1974.
Acquired August 1974.
Literature
R. Ellsworth and A. Christy, et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection, New York, Vol. III, 1993, p. 140, no. 86 (illustrated, p.140).
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