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AN EARTHENWARE BUST OF A WOMAN (SHITOTSUMON DOGU)
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AN EARTHENWARE BUST OF A WOMAN (SHITOTSUMON DOGU)

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

Closed16 March 2021

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AN EARTHENWARE BUST OF A WOMAN (SHITOTSUMON DOGU)
LATE JOMON-EARLY YAYOI PERIOD (5TH-3RD CENTURY BCE)
Of low-fired reddish clay with black fire marks, the body of a woman gazing sky decorated with dots and punctate pattern, the applique balls on body indicates the breasts and female genital
4 3/8 x 5 7/8 in. (11 x 14.9 cm.)
The results of the report on Thermoluminescene Analysis no. N121b23 obtained by the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, are consistent with the dating of this lot

Kimura Naosuke, Aomori Prefecture

Specialist note

Most of Dogu figures with punctate patterns across its torso are from the late Final Jomon period but there are some rare examples also from early Yayoi period. An almost identical shitotsu dogu with decoration of dots excavated in Sunazawa, Aomori Prefecture is in the collection of Hirosaki City Board of Education, see Miho Museum, ed., Dogu, a Cosmos (Tokyo: Hatori Press, Inc., 2012), cat. no. 232.