Cooking Vessel
Unknown Artist
c. 2500 BCE
Medium
earthenware with impressed and applied designs
Dimensions
diam. 26 cm · height: h. 45.7 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Mr. Joseph Brotherton
Accession Number
1991.172
About this artwork
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.