The figure is unusual for its large size. For other models holding incense burners, see Kakiemon Chosa Iinkai, eds., Kakiemon (Saga City: Kinkado shoten, 1957), pl. 8 and Kakiemon ten: Yoroppa ni kaikashita iroe toji (Kakiemon exhibition: The flowering of polychrome ceramics in Europe), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1993), pl. 83; Nagatake Takeshi, Yabe Yoshiaki and Minamoto Hiromichi, eds., Kakiemon no sekai: Genryu kara gendai made (Exhibition of the world of Kakiemon: From its origins to the present), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1983), pl. 50.