id: 152017
accession number: 1984.68
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Fire-flame Cooking Vessel (Ka'en Doki), c. 2500 BCE. Japan, Jōmon period (c. 10,500–300 BCE). 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
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creation date: c. 2500 BCE
creation date earliest: -2750
creation date latest: -2250
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: Japan, Jōmon period (c. 10,500–300 BCE)
technique: Earthenware with carved and applied decoration
department: Japanese Art
collection: Japanese Art
type: Ceramic
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measurements: height: 61 cm (24 in.); Diameter: 55.8 cm (21 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review for 1984
opening date: 1985-04-03T05:00:00
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: 1995-09-16T04:00:00
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, Cleveland, OH (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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Gallery Kapitan, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1984
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1984-
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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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
Glaubinger, Jane, "FILL THIS", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 35 no. 08, October 1995
page number: Cover
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1995-08
Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 178-179
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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
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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
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Mackey, Maureen. Experience Clay. Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 2003.
page number: Reproduced: p. 58, Fig. 3-24
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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
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Schirokauer, Conrad. A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations. Australia: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2006.
page number: Reproduced: p. 140, fig. 6.2
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30,000 Years of Art: The Story of Human Creativity Across Time and Space. London: Phaidon, 2007.
page number: p. 87
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Bell, Julian. Mirror of the World: A New History of Art. New York, NY: Thames & Hudson, 2007.
page number: Reproduced: p. 26, plate 15
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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
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 30
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Fortenberry, Diane, ed. The Art Museum. London; New York: Phaidon Press, 2017.
page number: Reproduced: P. 92, no. 1
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Vilbar, Sinéad. “Triumphant Returns: Treasured paintings on loan to Japanese museums and archaeological collections go back on display in Cleveland.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 59, no. 1 (January/February 2019): 12-13.
page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 13.
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Miyao, Toru 宮尾亨. "Flame pot in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection" [クリーブランド美術館収蔵の火焔型土器]. Niigata Prefectural Museum of History Research Bulletin [新潟県立歴史博物館研究紀要 = Niigata Kenritsu Rekishi Hakubutsukan kenkyū kiyō] no. 20 (March 2019), pp. 85–94.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 85–94; Reproduced: fig. 1–fig. 5
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