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Brush Pot with Episode from Life on Sima Guang
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Brush Pot with Episode from Life on Sima Guang

1628–61 · porcelain with underglaze blue decoration

From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

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

Cleveland Museum of Art’s own description
Credit lineBrush Pot with Episode from Life on Sima Guang, 1628–61. China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty, Shunzhi period (1644–61). Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration; diameter: 20.2 cm (7 15/16 in.); overall: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection, 1964.179
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