Stoneware jar with squat, round off-white body with painted and enameled brown, green, and blue butterflies on body and cover. Body and cover have black edge near rim. Cover has blue scroll border and button finial.
jars
glazing (coating)
painting (coating)
stoneware (pottery)
Stoneware
Tin Glazed
Painted
Enameled
JAR
Painted on underside of cover: [Japanese characters].
C128A,B
Unknown
5 1/2 (H), 5 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Julia G. Crocker
1933.6173AB
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