Brush Pot with Episode from Life on Sima Guang
Unknown Artist
1628–1661
Medium
porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
Dimensions
h. 20.4 cm · diam. 20.2 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Chinese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
Accession Number
1964.179
About this artwork
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