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Aug 29, 2012
Aug 29, 2012
Aug 29, 2012
Brush Pot with Episode from Life on Sima Guang
Brush Pot with Episode from Life on Sima Guang
1628–1661
Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
Diameter: 20.2 cm (7 15/16 in.); Overall: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.179
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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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