Brush Pot with Episode from Life on Sima Guang, 1628-1661, Cleveland Museum of Art: Chinese ArtPaint
Brush Pot with Episode from Life on Sima Guang, 1628-1661, Cleveland Museum of Art: Chinese ArtPainted 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 playmateSize: Diameter: 20.2 cm (7 15/16 in.); Overall: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.)Medium: porcelain with underglaze blue decorationhttps://clevelandart.org/art/1964.179 -- source link
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