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Cooking Vessel
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineCooking 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
