A Ko-Kutani set of five dishes in the form of nasubi (aubergine)
Edo period (1615-1868), late 17th centuryEach decorated in iron-red, green, yellow, aubergine, and blue enamels with autumnal windblown kikyo (Chinese bellflowers) issuing from the stalk, the rim brown-glazed; with a wood storage box. 2.5cm x 15.5cm (1in x 6 1/16in). (6).
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For a similar design see a dish illustrated by Takigawa Akiyuki, Kokutani: aote to kozara (Old-Kutani: Aote Type and Small Dishes), Osaka, Takigawa Hoseido, 1974, p.81. no.60. For a set of dishes in the same shape but with a different design, in the collection of the Komatsu Municipal Honjin Memorial Museum of Art, see Ishikawaken Kutani Tojiki Shokogyo Kyodokumiai Rengokai, Kutaniyaki (Kutani Ware), Nomi-gun, Ishikawa Pref., 2007, p.64, no.71.