Cleveland Museum of Art

Deep Vessel

Date

c. 2500 BCE

Medium

Earthenware with impressed and carved decoration

Culture

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

Department

Japanese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This cooking vessel was formed by piling coils of clay atop one another, smoothing and thinning the walls, and then adding surface decoration. Vertical incised squiggle lines as well as diagonal impressed cord patterns create texture. The mouth rises in four dramatic triangular forms, each with a coiled design inside. Jōmon , impressed rope patterns, are typical of vessels of this era, so archaeologists named the period after them.

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