id: 152017 accession number: 1984.68 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.68 updated: 2020-05-22 09:02:35.596000 Fire-flame Cooking Vessel (Ka'en Doki), c. 2500 BC. Japan, Jōmon period (c. 10,500-300 BC). Earthenware with carved and applied decoration; height: 61 cm (24 in.); diameter: 55.8 cm (21 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1984.68 title: Fire-flame Cooking Vessel (Ka'en Doki) title in original language: 火焔土器 series: series in original language: creation date: c. 2500 BC creation date earliest: 2750 creation date latest: 2250 current location: 235A Japanese creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Jōmon period (c. 10,500-300 BC) technique: Earthenware with carved and applied decoration department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: height: 61 cm (24 in.); Diameter: 55.8 cm (21 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review for 1984 opening date: 1985-04-03T04:00:00 Year in Review for 1984. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985). title: Asian Autumn: Early Ceramics from Japan and Korea opening date: 1995-09-19T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: Early Ceramics from Japan and Korea. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 3, 1995). title: Object in Focus: Jomon Pots: The World's Oldest Ceramic Tradition opening date: 2001-06-26T00:00:00 Object in Focus: Jomon Pots: The World's Oldest Ceramic Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 26-August 26, 2001). title: Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation opening date: 2019-01-07T05:00:00 Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 7-July 8, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Gallery Kapitan, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1984 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1984- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Scientifically tested residues from Jōmon vessels reveal that their makers consumed detoxified acorns. digital description: wall description: Archaeologists call this kind of vessel “fire-flame,” ka’en in Japanese, because their tops resemble flames. No one knows why the design was created, or what it actually represents. This example is remarkable for the amount that is original. It was recently determined that the bottom from a different vessel was used during its reconstruction, creating a false impression of its intended scale; it would have been about four inches shorter. Since their lower portions were set into holes in the ground during use, bases of pots like these often deteriorated. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1984." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 2 (1985): 163-207. page number: Reproduced: pp. 167 and 207, no. 176 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 3 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n19 Cunningham, Michael R. and others. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Reproduced: pp. 178-179 url: Munsterberg, Hugo, and Marjorie Munsterberg. World Ceramics: From Prehistoric to Modern Times. New York: Penguin Studio Books, 1998. page number: Reproduced: pp. 18-19, no. 9 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: pp. 80 and 119, no. 85 url: Mackey, Maureen. Experience Clay. Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 2003. page number: Reproduced: p. 58, Fig. 3-24 url: Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005. page number: Reproduced: p. 13 url: Schirokauer, Conrad. A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations. Australia: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2006. page number: Reproduced: p. 140, fig. 6.2 url: 30,000 Years of Art: The Story of Human Creativity Across Time and Space. London: Phaidon, 2007. page number: p. 87 url: Bell, Julian. Mirror of the World: A New History of Art. New York, NY: Thames & Hudson, 2007. page number: Reproduced: p. 26, plate 15 url: Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: Reproduced: pp. 16-17 url: Fortenberry, Diane, ed. The Art Museum. London; New York: Phaidon Press, 2017. page number: Reproduced: P. 92, no. 1 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.68/1984.68_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.68/1984.68_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.68/1984.68_full.tif