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VARIOUS PROPERTY
2 AN EARTHENWARE BUST 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
3æ x 2æ in. (9.5 x 7 cm.)
The results of the report on
Thermoluminescene Analysis no. N121b24
obtained by the Research Laboratory for
Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford
University, are consistent with the dating of
this lot

$15,000-20,000

PROVENANCE:
Kimura Naosuke, Aomori Prefecture This figure displays the typical decoration of a shakoki
dogu(goggle-eyed figure), one of the two mainstream
EXHIBITED:
types of clay figurine made at Kamegaoka in Aomori
Suntory Museum of Art, “Dogu to domen (Clay Figurines
prefecture during the Final Jomon period. Modelled using
and Clay Masks),” 1969.3.18-5.4.
incised cord marks and distinctive features of the small
and narrow eyes suggest the date of this figure to be
LITERATURE:
latter half of the ‘goggled-eye’ period. A similar shakoki
Suntory Museum of Art, ed., Dogu to domen (Clay
dogu with small and narrow eyes is in the collection of
Figurines and Clay Masks) (Tokyo: Suntory Museum of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (fig.1).
Art, 1969), cat. no. 122.

Fig. 1. Dogu, Japan. Final Jomon period, ca. 1,000-300 B.C. The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.268.193