JOMON PERIOD (1000-300 BCE)

For another vessel with incised dots and small protrusions of very similar form in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, see Yoshiko Kakudo, The Art of Japan: Masterworks in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and Chronicle Books, 1991), pl. 4. The catalogue entry remarks that the vessel is assumed to be a censer but its precise use is not known.