An earthenware jar with long neck

MIDDLE YAYOI PERIOD (200 BCE-100 CE)

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An earthenware jar with long neck
Middle Yayoi period (200 BCE-100 CE)
Of low-fired reddish clay with black fire marks, the globular jar set on a small ring foot with a long fluted neck, the exterior of the everted mouth rim with comb-tooth pattern, four pairs of studs to inside rim, the neck decorated with two bands of comb-tooth pattern
11½in. (29.2cm.) high
With wood box inscribed Osaka fuka Funabashi shutsudo (excavated from Funabashi, Osaka Prefecture)

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. N106d83 is consistent with the dating of this lot. (2)

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For similar jars excavated from the Funabashi site, Kashiwara City, Osaka, see Doki no zokei: Jomon no do, Yayoi no sei Clay Objects of Ancient Japan--From Jomon and Yayoi Periods (Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 2001), pls. 272-73.

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