Cleveland Museum of Art

Cooking Vessel

Date

c. 2500 BCE

Medium

earthenware with impressed and applied designs

Culture

Japan, Jōmon period (c. 10,500–300 BCE)

Department

Japanese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This asymmetrical vessel has designs made by pressing cord or rope onto the damp clay and cylinders of clay applied to the surface. Based on its designs and shape, it was likely produced in the northern Kanto region. For reasons unknown today, different regions created signature styles.

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