Cooking Vessel
-2550–-2540
- Medium
- earthenware with impressed and applied designs
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 26 cm (10 1/4 in.); height: 45.7 cm (18 in.)
- Genre
- Ceramic
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Japan, Jōmon period (c. 10,500–300 BCE)
About
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.