Artworks

Conical round-bottomed vessel

Artwork · Anonymous · c. 5000 BCE · vessel · Hakodate City Museum

A deep cooking pot of the Initial Jōmon phase with a gently undulating rim, its whole surface covered in cord markings; its rounded base stood in the embers of an open fire. The excavation it came from is not documented. 1 Mason 2005, p. 15, fig. 2. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.