Cooking Vessel (c. 2500 BCE): Art, History and Details

Cooking Vessel (c. 2500 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Cooking Vessel
• Date: c. 2500 BCE
• Culture: Japan, Jōmon period (c. 10,500–300 BCE)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: earthenware with impressed and applied designs
• Dimensions: Diameter: 26 cm (10 1/4 in.); height: 45.7 cm (18 in.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1991.172

Collection credit

Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Mr. Joseph Brotherton

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79.
• Cunningham Michael R., "Primal Pottery", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 35 no. 07, September 1995

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.