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

Description

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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