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Deep Vessel

深鉢)

c. 2500 BCE
(c. 10,500–300 BCE)
Earthenware with impressed and carved decoration
Diameter: 36.8 cm (14 1/2 in.); Overall: 44.7 cm (17 5/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1998.32
Location: not on view
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Jōmon, impressed rope patterns, are typical of vessels of this era, so archaeologists named the period after them.

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.
Deep Vessel

Deep Vessel

c. 2500 BCE

Japan, Jōmon period (c. 10,500–300 BCE)

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