Square bottle with the 'three friends'; birds and floral scrolls; Square bottle of porcelain; painted on the glaze in blue; red; green; yellow; brown; black and gold. Two birds (including cranes) on each wall on or near a flowering tree by a rock; one of the 'three friends of winter' (pine; bamboo; prunus) on three sides and a chrysanthemum on the fourth. Flower vines with a bird on the shoulder. Old label on the bottom with 'Westendorp Collection / 139'. Inscription on the bottom with 'a'. Some cracks in the wall; the neck has been buffed. Arita; Kakiemon.; anonymous; Japan; c. 1670 - c. 1690; Edo-period (1600-1868); porcelain (material); glaze; gold (metal); vitrification; h 25.2 cm d 9 cm l 11.3 cm x w 11.2 cm l 10.4 cm x w 10.3 cm