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Deep Pot (Fuka-bachi)

Middle Jomon period (ca. 3500–2500 BCE)
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 223
The body of this deep vessel was coil-built before being smoothed and then decorated by rolling twisted cords across the surface—a process distinctive of Jōmon pottery. Approximately seventy major pottery styles flourished at different times during the Jōmon period. The most elaborate are called “flame style” due to the flame-like decoration of their rims. Here, the rim rises into openwork, “water-flame-shaped” (suien) handles, built from rounded clay coils.

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Object Information
  • 手状装飾付深鉢　縄文・中期
  • Title: Deep Pot (Fuka-bachi)
  • Period: Middle Jomon period (ca. 3500–2500 BCE)
  • Culture: Japan
  • Medium: Earthenware with cord-marked and incised decoration
  • Dimensions: H. 13 in. (33 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics
  • Credit Line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 1992
  • Object Number: 1992.252.1
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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