YAYOI PERIOD (1ST-2ND CENTURY)

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A JAR
Yayoi Period (1st-2nd Century)
Of low-fired reddish-clay pottery with pronounced black firing marks, the ovoid body with tall shoulder, wide neck and everted mouth, some old damage to rim, the box with a paper label to the effect that this Lot was excavated at Tsukubo-gun, Okayama Prefecture
10 7/8in. (27.7cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For similar jars, see Tsuboi Kiyotari, Yayoi, Toji taikei [A compendium of ceramics] (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1973), vol. 2, plate 37, excavated in Hiroshima Prefecture, and Zauho Kankokai, Nihon kodai hen [Ancient Japan], Sekai toji zenshu [A compendium of world ceramics] (Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 1961), plate 5, from Nagasaki Prefecture.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd thermoluminescence test, no. N101x47, is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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