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Cooking Vessel

c. 2500 BCE
(c. 10,500–300 BCE)
earthenware with impressed and applied designs
Diameter: 26 cm (10 1/4 in.); height: 45.7 cm (18 in.)
Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Mr. Joseph Brotherton 1991.172
Location: not on view
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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.
Cooking Vessel

Cooking Vessel

c. 2500 BCE

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

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