Brush Pot with Episode from Life on Sima Guang
1628–1661
- Medium
- porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 20.2 cm (7 15/16 in.); Overall: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.)
- Genre
- Ceramic
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty, Shunzhi period (1644–61)
About
Painted in a continuous scene around the cylindrical body is an episode from a folktale about Sima Guang (1019-86), a renowned Northern Song statesman and scholar who exercised quick thinking in his childhood when he broke a ceramic vat filled with water to rescue a drowning playmate