Artworks

Vessel of “incense burner” type

Artwork · Anonymous · c. 2500 BCE–c. 1500 BCE · vessel

A lamp or incense burner of the Middle Jōmon: a sphere cut open at the top, the upper part a flowing design of circles around holes ending in the heads of a snake or a long-beaked bird. Held by Educational Commission of Suwa City, Nagano Prefecture. 1 Mason 2005, p. 19, fig. 9. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.