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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¿ 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
$80,000-120,000

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

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.