Fire-flame Cooking Vessel (Ka'en Doki)
c. 2500 BC
Maker Unknown
Japanese Art
Fire-flame Cooking Vessel (Ka'en Doki), c. 2500 BC. Japan, Jōmon period (c. 10,500-300 BC). Earthenware with carved and applied decoration; height: 61 cm (24 in.); diameter: 55.8 cm (21 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1984.68 Scientifically tested residues from Jōmon vessels reveal that their makers consumed detoxified acorns.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- Earthenware with carved and applied decoration
- Medium
- earthenware, carved, applied, decoration
- Dimensions
- height: 61 cm (24 in.); Diameter: 55.8 cm (21 15/16 in.)
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1984.68
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review for 1984, Asian Autumn: Early Ceramics from Japan and Korea, Object in Focus: Jomon Pots: The World's Oldest Ceramic Tradition, Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 235A Japanese
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