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Eggplants in a Basket

Totoya Hokkei

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image depicts a still life of eggplants in a basket. A large black eggplant with a white patch on its side sits on top of a smaller eggplant in a brown woven basket. The basket has a blue crisscross pattern around its rim. A small detached piece of an eggplant sits to the right. The background is beige with Japanese writing in black ink scattered throughout.

Artwork details

Date:
19th century
Medium:
Part of an album of woodblock prints (surimono); ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
587 × 624 px
Museum record:
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