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Source Description
This asymmetrical vessel has designs made by pressing cord or rope onto the damp clay and cylinders of clay applied to the surface. Based on its designs and shape, it was likely produced in the northern Kanto region. For reasons unknown today, different regions created signature styles.
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Document identity
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155870
label
Cooking Vessel
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object
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155870
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object
title
Cooking Vessel
description
This asymmetrical vessel has designs made by pressing cord or rope onto the damp clay and cylinders of clay applied to the surface. Based on its designs and shape, it was likely produced in the northern Kanto region. For reasons unknown today, different regions created signature styles.
date
c. 2500 BCE
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60779724
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Ceramic
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Diameter: 26 cm (10 1/4 in.); height: 45.7 cm (18 in.)
cul
Japan, Jōmon period (c. 10,500–300 BCE)
accession
1991.172
Source extras
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earthenware with impressed and applied designs
tombstone
Cooking Vessel, c. 2500 BCE. Japan, Jōmon period (c. 10,500–300 BCE). Earthenware with impressed and applied designs; diameter: 26 cm (10 1/4 in.); height: 45.7 cm (18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Mr. Joseph Brotherton, 1991.172
collection
Japanese Art
citations
citation
Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 79, no. 441
citation
Cunningham Michael R., "Primal Pottery", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 35 no. 07, September 1995
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 7
creditline
Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Mr. Joseph Brotherton
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2026-05-29 08:06:16.455000
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155870
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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earthenware with impressed and applied designs
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