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13064
From: Japan | Honshu | Chiba Prefecture | Hirayama Village
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 13064 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Jomon | Neolithic | Japanese |
| Provenience | Japan | Honshu | Chiba Prefecture | Hirayama Village |
| Period | Jomon |
| Date Made | Middle Jomon -Late Jomon |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Clay |
| Technique | Incised | Burnished | Fired |
| Inscription Language | Japanese Language |
| Description | Foot of pedestal vessel. Thickly potted. Circular foot attached to rounded bottom of vessel. Foot is smooth and burnished with red pigment and exterior sides of vessel are incised with short lines. Red pigment on interior bottom of vessel. Dark in color. This fragment of a footed vessel is probably not earlier than the Middle Jomon Period as fewer footed types appear before that time. |
| Height | 6.5 cm |
| Width | 8.8 cm |
| Thickness | 0.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with the Japanese Commissioner, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 |
| Other Number | 47 - Other Number |
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