Deep Bowl with Four Projections, 2500-1500 BCE, Unknown Japanese, 21 1/4 x 22 in. ( x cm), Earthenware, Japan, 25th-15th century BCE, Japan’s first ceramic culture, the Jōmon (14,000–300 bce), produced strongly tactile pottery over 3,500 years ago. This lavishly decorated bowl was probably used during religious ceremonies. Its flamboyant rim, a typical feature of the middle period of Jōmon pottery, is known as the 'fire-flame' type, because the coils of clay resemble leaping flames. The word jōmon, after which the historical period is named, means 'cord markings'

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