AN EARTHENWARE VESSEL WITH SCULPTURAL RIM
AN EARTHENWARE VESSEL WITH SCULPTURAL RIM

LATE JOMON PERIOD (5TH-3RD CENTURY BCE)

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AN EARTHENWARE VESSEL WITH SCULPTURAL RIM
LATE JOMON PERIOD (5TH-3RD CENTURY BCE)
Of low-fired reddish clay with black fire marks, the body decorated with scrolling cord pattern, the rim with sculptural handle-like ornament and further cord pattern, the results of the report on Thermoluminescence Analysis no. N118c26 obtained by the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, are consistent with the dating of this lot
9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) wide

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Based on the most recent scientific research, it is believed that the manufacturing of the Jomon vessels started around 15,000 BCE. For over ten thousand years, the potters made jomon (rope-decorated) vessels. An early obsession with surface decoration, much of it made by rolling a piece of rope across the soft clay surface, turned in time into an amazing array of sculptural additions to the hand-built body of the pot.
For other earthenware vessels from Jomon period in the Avery Brundage Collection at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, see Yoshiko Kakudo, ed., The Art of Japan, Masterworks in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1991), pls. 3 and 4.

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