Artworks

Ewer with bridge handle and “erased cord” designs

Artwork · Anonymous · c. 1500 BCE–c. 1000 BCE · vessel · Tatsuuma Archaeological Museum

A Late Jōmon “teapot”: on its swelling body bands of cord marking framed by incised lines, the area around them smoothed away (“erased cord”). 1 Mason 2005, p. 22, fig. 15. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.