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3 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¡ x 5√ 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

$15,000-20,000

PROVENANCE:
Kimura Naosuke, Aomori Prefecture Most of Dogu figures with punctate patterns across its
torso are from the late Final Jomon period but there are
EXHIBITED:
some rare examples also from early Yayoi period. An
Suntory Museum of Art, “Dogu to domen (Clay Figurines
almost identical shitotsu dogu with decoration of dots
and Clay Masks),” 1969.3.18-5.4.
excavated in Sunazawa, Aomori Prefecture is in the
collection of Hirosaki City Board of Education, see Miho
LITERATURE:
Museum, ed., Dogu, a Cosmos (Tokyo: Hatori Press, Inc.,
Suntory Museum of Art, ed., Dogu to domen (Clay
2012), cat. no. 232.
Figurines and Clay Masks) (Tokyo: Suntory Museum of
Art, 1969), cat. no. 121.