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Source Description
This cooking vessel was formed by piling coils of clay atop one another, smoothing and thinning the walls, and then adding surface decoration. Vertical incised squiggle lines as well as diagonal impressed cord patterns create texture. The mouth rises in four dramatic triangular forms, each with a coiled design inside.
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Document identity
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160539
label
Deep Vessel
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160539
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object
title
Deep Vessel
description
This cooking vessel was formed by piling coils of clay atop one another, smoothing and thinning the walls, and then adding surface decoration. Vertical incised squiggle lines as well as diagonal impressed cord patterns create texture. The mouth rises in four dramatic triangular forms, each with a coiled design inside.
date
c. 2500 BCE
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q60755796
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Ceramic
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1
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dimensionsRaw
height: 44.7 cm (17 5/8 in.); Diameter: 36.8 cm (14 1/2 in.)
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Japan, Jōmon period (c. 10,500–300 BCE)
accession
1998.32
Source extras
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Earthenware with impressed and carved decoration
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Deep Vessel (深鉢)), c. 2500 BCE. Japan, Jōmon period (c. 10,500–300 BCE). Earthenware with impressed and carved decoration; height: 44.7 cm (17 5/8 in.); diameter: 36.8 cm (14 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1998.32
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深鉢)
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Japanese Art
didYouKnow
<em>Jōmon</em>, impressed rope patterns, are typical of vessels of this era, so archaeologists named the period after them.
citations
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, “Painting by 18th-century Italian Master Gaetano Gandolfi among Works Added to CMA Collection,” March 24, 1998, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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John L. Severance Fund
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2026-06-18 18:46:52.173000
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160539
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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Earthenware with impressed and carved decoration
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