Art Institute of Chicago
Handle in the Form of an Animal Head
Japan
- Date
- c. 1000–300 B.C.
- Medium
- Earthenware
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Only a handful of animals are represented in Jômon art. This piece is in the shape of the head of an animal; it looks like a horse from one side and a sheep from the other. The walls of the indentations are carefully modeled, not simply pressed into the clay with a stick. Judging by the curved back surface, it seems likely that this head came off of a vessel and was perhaps a handle that sat on the rim (with the curved surface at the back forming part of the interior wall of a jar).
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- Object type
- AAT300312158
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