LATE JOMON PERIOD (5TH-3RD CENTURY BCE)

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AN EARTHENWARE SCULPTURE OF A WOMAN (SHAKOKI DOGU)
LATE JOMON PERIOD (5TH-3RD CENTURY BCE)
Of low-fired reddish clay with black fire marks, the body of a goggle-eyed figure, decorated with incised details and scrolling cord pattern, wearing head-ornament with inscised designs
7 1⁄8 in. (18.1 cm.) high
The results of the report on Thermoluminescene Analysis no. N122a32 obtained by the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, are consistent with the dating of this lot

Provenance

Private collection, Japan

Literature

Kitano hokori / Kamegaoka bunka (Pride of North Region / Kamegaoka Culture) (Aomori: Aomoriken Bunkazai Hogokyokai, 1990), p. 129
Jomon no fukei / Daichi to jujyutsu (Scenery of Jomon / Land and spell) (Iwate Prefectural Museum, 1984), pl. D-3

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Lot Essay

This figure displays the typical decoration of a shakoki dogu (goggle-eyed figure), one of the two mainstream types of clay figurine made at Kamegaoka in Aomori prefecture during the Final Jomon period. Modelled using incised cord marks and distinctive features of the small and narrow eyes suggest the date of this figure to be latter half of the ‘goggled-eye’ period. A similar shakoki dogu with small and narrow eyes is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (fig.1)

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