Cleveland Museum of Art
Brush Pot with Episode from Life on Sima Guang
- Date
- 1628–61
- Medium
- porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
- Culture
- China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty, Shunzhi period (1644–61)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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
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